Why the fuck do apps throw tantrums as soon the phone looses internet connectivity?

HBO stops steaming and closes the player as soon as wifi disconnects, discarding the buffered data.

For Quora, it replaces loaded answers with a UI asking you to reload the page. Now, what am I supposed to do in the lift? Stare awkwardly at the lift buttons?

At what point did we decided bad user experience and arbitrarily discarding cached data is the way forward?

all that happened when "ux designers" came into the equation.

@tosensei i can assure you it's rather lack of those in the process

This is
UNACCEPTABLE

Ewww you use Quora?

@msdsk nah. UX designers are the people insisting on "adding another animation here", or "let's put another bit of information into the already cramped layout because one in 10000 users might need it at some time". instead of focusing on "making the core functionality work as good as we can"

UX designer is (like middle management) one of those positions where people simply are NEVER ever ever qualified for their job - because if they were, they'd do something different.

I love airplane mode, kills all the ads