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ChappIO46977yPretty sure Spotify has a lot of a/b testing on the desktop app. Maybe they do the same thing with the Android app? Writing changelogs would then be useless
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C0D4681467y@daegontaven
What could possibly be “marketing” value in a useless change log message?
They haven’t told me anything that’s been changed from the previous release that I could possibly go “OMG I got to check that feature out” -
Npstr6597yI think changelogs are inherently not aimed at end users. This is an ok approach in handling not communicating unnecessary technical details.
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amsghwdp947yTheir blog has a lot of interesting stuff, pity about their changelogs. I wish I could switch from GPM but GPM has uploaded music to all devices as a killer feature for me
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That might means two things:
a) We really fucked up in previous version
b) We are afraid of fucking up in following versions, so we're preparing ourselves for it. -
In most of devs' life there's a moment when we start understanding that in our culture it's accepted to kinda keep your errors with you. That's not really spread among the rest of people in society.
We got used to it thanks to tools like git, where we dont delete the version where we fucked up, we simply fix it. -
This is a changelog. It includes all new changes.
1. The update had changes
Well that is it really... -
C0D4681467y@daegontaven
Wait, no I think you got that wrong.
I meant the “we changed something but can’t be bothered telling you” logs are useless.
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