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Re: Software Updates

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Post by ryandrake »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #77
s9w wrote: post #17

Software getting worse, just out of my head: - VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler) - Firefox "new" extension API still means you can't remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks - Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And no…

Some of these are "power" vs "everyday" user optimizations. The one that jumps out to me is Skype. I had read some case studies of their redesign where they stated that 90%+ of Skype users only have two or three Skype contacts, and they use it to talk to their family members. The redesign optimized for that and as a result you, I and everyone else with hundreds of contacts lost our collective minds. I 100% get that i…

Some other recent Skype features:

Calls not connecting despite both users being online

Calls dropping suddenly

Calls seeming to connect but neither user can see or hear the other

Video freezing for one user while fine for the other

User showing up as online when not

User showing up as not online when actually online

I wonder if their case studies showed these would cause users to flock to this "walking dead" app. But hey, a UX lead got to put "re-designed Skype" on their resume, and their logo animates differently while connecting, so they have that going for them.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by ryandrake »

s9w wrote: post #17

Software getting worse, just out of my head: - VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler) - Firefox "new" extension API still means you can't remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks - Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And no…

What would be nice is if software were distributed in such a way that you could always pick up the security fixes, performance improvements, and other good stuff, and skip the UI re-designs, killed features, chat functions, and other awful stuff that always seem to come with updates.

Lots of software used to do maintenance releases but sadly this practice seems to have gone out of fashion. Software upgrades are almost always now "take it all or leave it".

Re: Software Updates

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Post by jobigoud »

s9w wrote: post #17

Software getting worse, just out of my head: - VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler) - Firefox "new" extension API still means you can't remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks - Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And no…

The "Photos" app in Windows. Thankfully the old Windows Image Viewer is still there, just need a registry hack to enable it back.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by rambojazz »

_pmf_ wrote: post #80
s9w wrote: post #17

Software getting worse, just out of my head: - VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler) - Firefox "new" extension API still means you can't remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks - Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And no…

> Imgur is a joke and became what it was literally founded to avoid It literally fails utterly at the singular thing it is supposed to do. Makes me feel less bad about my own managerial driven development.

What does it fail at?

Re: Software Updates

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Post by sundarurfriend »

cptnapalm wrote: post #91
mitchtbaum wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_.. . https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsAllMyFault https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAreBetterThan... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BetterThanNew https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ResponsibilityTr...

And like that , millions of hours of productivity were lost.

I've never gotten these "TVTropes rabbithole" memes. I've visited the site plenty, it's tickled my curiousity from time to time, but it's never really gotten me to spend hours on it. Wikipedia or HN have a much greater chance of doing that that TVTropes, for me.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by kba »

vetinari wrote: post #57
kba wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With fear of starting a fire here, are you using an Android phone? I'm asking, because whenever I hear people complain about phone software that just breaks, it's almost always Android, and with good reason: They have to support a lot more phones than iOS, and Android is a lot more open. So I just wanted to air the idea that you could try with an iPhone. iOS may lack some of the feature Android users are used to, but…

In android, radio stack is chipset specific and the OS interacts with it via RIL, provided by chipset vendor. It has nothing to do with "has to support a lot more phones than iOS"; in both systems the OS does not touch the audio streams, just routes them from/to input/output.

I think you jumbled up the two paragraphs. Nowhere did I suggest that poor audio quality was because Android has to support more hardware.

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Post by noxer »

s9w wrote: post #17

Software getting worse, just out of my head: - VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler) - Firefox "new" extension API still means you can't remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks - Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And no…

Assuming most use windows 10 by now not win 8 so everything relevant for the start menu is back. Tiles can all be removed (I don't like them) The top 10 most used programs should be pinned to the taskbar. WIN+1,2,3,...0 will start them/lay the focus on them Everything else I start with WIN+"type some letters of the name" Right click on the windows "start"-logo brings up shortcuts to jump basically everywhere in the windows settings for example "event viewer" or "device manager".

Note that WIN+search orders results by hits so if you use it for a while it gets better. Also if you don't use file search you should turn it off as this makes search faster for starting programs.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by pmontra »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #117
pmontra wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, that could be the reason but I'd had appreciated if they were honest to tell us, the people that (used to) use Skype for work "thank you, we don't want you anymore, go find some other tool."

Note that Skype has now split into "Skype for Business" (whic is it's own form of weirdness in Office 365) and then normal Skype which is for the family/individuals.

Isn't Skype for Business Microsoft's old own Lync rebranded as Skype? [1] [2] It's seems it is about to become Microsoft Teams.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_for_Business

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2014/11/1...

> In the first half of 2015, the next version of Lync will become Skype for Business with a new client experience, new server release and updates to the service in Office 365

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