mccNov 1, 2023

Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:

A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.

Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply *more likely to file bugs*.

Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA

https://techhub.social/@ozone89/111337250473454154

Daniele Pantaleo 🦥:verified: (@[email protected])

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Show threadmccNov 1, 2023

This is the "what if lab rats just get cancer a lot" joke except real

Do you have a correlation in your data? Or is one of your sample groups simply more likely to generate *statistics*?

Show threadmoduluxNov 1, 2023
@mcc Sometimes I wonder if Firefox isn't heavily under-measured as a browser because it's run by privacy nerds who set up no telemetry, no js, or other forms of blocking that obscure it, for example.
Show threadkepstinNov 2, 2023
@modulux @mcc any site that simply looks at the user agents recorded in the web server logs will correctly count Firefox. But if you're relying only on a third party JavaScript tracker... Yeah, there's gonna be some biased undercounting .
Show threadTai xzoNov 2, 2023
@kepstin @modulux @mcc unless you’ve got the user agent set to Chrome for those websites that “only work on chrome” (but actually the devs just never bothered to test on other browsers)
Show threadBarryP
@taixzo @kepstin @modulux @mcc Some of them possibly never test usability on any browser once they’ve tweeked something.
Way back, a hip designer for Bose (I think it was), decided that the page background on their website pages should be black.
Thus becoming the same color as the text, which they didn’t change.
Nov 2, 2023 at 10:25amWeb