So in Spotify, they have subscriber, vip and svip...
We need to pay more and more to avoid ads.
Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
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#132Sounds like they need a better system to manage their entitlements!!!
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#133Yeah.. They seem to speed up their entshittification game. I recently wrote a short piece about how Spotify is forcefully updating the app, and how to prevent it. For example, if you plan tonuse spicetify or something similar: https://duckass.bearblog.dev/how-spotify-silently-updates-it... Spotify is losing ground after their last subscription fees increase, as far as I see it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ
Once you see this its hard to unsee the pattern. Its happening to everything.
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#134This is just the latest in a series of vibe-coding caused bugs, Spotify famously claimed their best devs were no longer writing any of their own code: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-deve... I don't understand enterprises who take this stance, there is tons of room between "don't utilize AI for coding" and "exclusively utilize AI for coding."
It's fully caused by management mindset. There are companies that are investing hard on the AI trend, but the message is clear: all code pushed is your ultimate responsonsibility, and if it lacks quality or causes problems, you're on the hook for it; using AI hasn't changed that. So if Spotify had a modicum of AI usage hygiene, plus accountability expectations for code quality, this would still mean a bad performance…
spotify has no performance review process or any sort of performance management. Never heard of anyone getting piped there for many years i was there.
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#135This is just the latest in a series of vibe-coding caused bugs, Spotify famously claimed their best devs were no longer writing any of their own code: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-deve... I don't understand enterprises who take this stance, there is tons of room between "don't utilize AI for coding" and "exclusively utilize AI for coding."
Spotify has always been garbage software long before LLMs. PM/devs like to justify their constant a/b testing to gamify metrics to curry raises/promotions but for end users all we're dealt with is a constantly broken/changing UI. My biggest peeve with Spotify UI is how hard it is to add something to your current playing queue, an action I would assume is quite common but you have to scroll down to hit several control…
The Spotify hate is so forced. Everyone's complaints boil down to "the UX doesn't work exactly like I want". I find these changes mildly annoying like anyone else, but Spotify is miles ahead of everyone else in terms of discovery and it's not even close. It's not perfect but no service is.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spotify has always been garbage software long before LLMs. PM/devs like to justify their constant a/b testing to gamify metrics to curry raises/promotions but for end users all we're dealt with is a constantly broken/changing UI. My biggest peeve with Spotify UI is how hard it is to add something to your current playing queue, an action I would assume is quite common but you have to scroll down to hit several control…
The Spotify hate is so forced. Everyone's complaints boil down to "the UX doesn't work exactly like I want". I find these changes mildly annoying like anyone else, but Spotify is miles ahead of everyone else in terms of discovery and it's not even close. It's not perfect but no service is.
It's really not. The UX changes are like coming home every day and finding your cupboards have been totally rearranged, the fridge is now outside, and the dishwasher is in the bedroom. The next day, the dishwasher is in the garden, and your cups are in the bin.
I left years ago when their "discoverability" started forcing random Nordic music into my Spotify Weekly. Support basically told me to accept it or go away, so I did, and never looked back.