josefbad: you're inside, and someone outside knocks on your door
worse: you're outside, and someone inside knocks on your door
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i made that mastodon boop sound
it is said that approximately 1,993 years ago a man who disappeared had emerged from a burrow, and it was clear to onlookers that it was man no more, and they saw that what was man had become unshackled from the concept of man, and that what emerged frolicked, and its long ears stood proud, and it sniffed the air, and its beedy eyes surveyed the crowd, and its great thighs propelled it, and in those leaps and hops they saw its great vitality, and they saw that it also laid eggs, many eggs indeed
id like to say this decline is a consequence of malevolent venture capitalism or entropy or moloch’s ten armies or whatever, but it affects all apps, small and large. its very rare to find an app which gets better. the nicest people are making lovely apps, and even their apps are getting worse. it’s *all* apps. All Apps Worse
even this app i’m using now, the mastodon app, is worse. it still has the weird bug from a couple of years ago where the timeline jumps around. but now images don’t open in a black void like they used to on all social media apps, instead they hover on top of the existing timeline, and dismissing them requires a slightly different kind of swipe that feels 30% less intuitive. also I swear you used to be able to tap-hold to save an image, but that doesn’t seem to work now? All Apps Worse
i tried shutting down my phone as quickly as possible, but it was too late. the process had Begun. it can only be paused, never reversed. so i let all the apps update. now literally everything on my phone is 15-20% worse. i haven’t updated some of these apps in 3-4 years, and the new, latest versions? all of them slower. all of them have worse UI, redesigned, less consistent, less discoverable, even after just a couple of years. removed features too. more nagging interactions. all apps worse
pretty much all apps i ever use get worse every time they update. because of this, for at least ten years, i have my phone (an iphone) set to only update apps manually. but yesterday something terrible happened. as i was scrolling down the list of “apps with pending updates” to update just one of them (there’s probably at least 70 on there, most of which i will never update) the UI lagged, and during the hitch, registered a tap on the “update all apps” button
*guy in 1967* the demand for electric harpsichords has increased over 900% in the last six months, and as a result we're closing all our other production lines to focus on winding special harpsichord pickups. you could say i've bet the company on it, but it's a sure bet. the future of music