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Why not mute notifications of that type?
You can’t, because they’re just normal text posts
Wow. Almost forgot why I’m never on Facebook. Thank you.
Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
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Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#22Heardle was one of the games that we really enjoyed quite a bit, but definitely needed some sort of variation to the game itself other than 'first x seconds' Usually we would get the answer in a single try, because it happened to be a song we knew by heart, or we wouldn't get it at all because we didn't know the artist/it was just not in a genre to which we regularly listen/the song was an obscure hit or one hit wond…
Why don't they just ask songs some of you once heard before using ur song history?
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#23Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#24Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#25Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.
I quit sometime after they ended extensions. It was so awesome having Spotify as a platform for dozens & dozens of extensions.
I wish I'd taken a screenshot or done a video tour of my setup before it shut down. The Cluetrain Manifesto/Intertwingularity days were so full of open endless possibility & fun. Spotify did so so so well, had such an interesting capable Javascript extension system built in to the app... then we're one of the first people to pack up & leave the party. I was shocked.
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#26Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#27They ruined it! Pre-acquisition Heardle played the song from the beginning immediately after you finished guessing. Post-acquisition, you had to open the song in Spotify which introduced a lag of several seconds. The immediate visceral reward of playing the game disappeared.
Pre acquisition it was based on Soundclouds most popular 250, and most of them were well-known enough to be guessable.
I've no idea what source they switched it to, but there's a lot of obscure songs which makes it a lot less fun.
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#28Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.
Their UX is infuriating compared to a few years ago. Why does it take multiple clicks to get to search? Why are my playlists etc not front and centre? Pop-ups about new albums from artists that they know I’ve never listened to and never would?
Every time I use it now, my inner voice is saying “get the fuck out of my way” to the UX itself.
What are they optimizing for?
Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
#29Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.
They've been actively destroying their UX for years now. I am so tired of them forcing their Podcasts and audio books and whatever else on me.
The one thing I want Spotify to do well is algorithmic discovery. The Discover Weekly playlist is the only thing that keeps me on the service, and yet they make it more and more difficult to find. The position on the home screen is entirely random and unpredictable. The only reliable way to find it is by using the search feature.