All of the social media companies are like that. If my business depended on Facebook for sales, I'd be bankrupt by now. Because there's no way to tell if FB will run normally from day to day. Thousands of coders piling their new stuff onto a vast pile of older stuff. No one cuts the pile down--it just gets taller and wider and slower and less reliable. And there's no one to complain to, even if you're PAYING them for a service.Bbb23sucks wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:47 pmJust look at a company like Twitter or the WMF. They have hundreds if not thousands of highly salaried developers and yet their software barely works (if at all in Twitter's case).
"Feature creep" is a stupid term. I would call it simply bad design and insane management. Most of the WMF's "precious wiki code" was written by two guys, both volunteers for the first few years. It worked, it built a power pole, and now it's attracting the fat and grease that always accumulates around power poles. This is why I like to use IBM as the worst example, it's the biggest and greasiest power pole the computer world has ever seen. Or at least it WAS--now it's slowly declining into irrelevance.
