why do i need to update the app so i can see changes. Whats the point of a change log then? I have auto updates off cause it a hassle to revert back to an earlier version if I dont like the changes. I know for a fact the ig update is for their new stupid map feature and AI shit. I will not update unless it stops working completely. Is it so hard to say what specific bug was fixed and what exactly do you mean by performance.
why cant it be detailed like this
You expect them to admit:
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Implemented more aggressive collection of personal data to sell to advertisers.
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Advertisers of medical and beauty supplements are now suggested to your teenage daughter if she deleted her picture minutes after not receieving likes.
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Users who advocate for neonazi and genocidal idologies now get suggested to each other to better promote and organize which returns higher profit of targetted advertisements as their usage time and activities increase together.
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As part of our new monitoring and speech policy, users are now allowed to use the word retard, removed, f-word, tranny, and n-word with hard R without their posts getting flagged or reviewed which allows for better targetted advertisements and higher revenue for the Zuck.
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Data collection now includes geophraphical tracking of your friends and intrests of people you follow giving higher revenue for shareholders.
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Implemented analysis of background data collection of users usage and screen time, which gives higher profits per click to our targetted adveretisers.
does lemmy.world not allow bitch? lol thats funny
or is it something else like cunt
Censorship of words is the dumbest thing to me. People simply change the word. Keep playing R-worded whack-a-mole lmao.
lmao…! Yes Lemmy censored my comment but I hope I dont get banned for it. I was mocking facebook content policy changes which the Zuck implemented to lick Trump’s removed which was part of his $25Million settlement to avoid repercussions for banning his account back when Biden was in Office.
i cant wait for both their downfalls !!
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I can understand a banking app such as Chime* wanting to obfuscate whatever bugs or potential exploits they’ve come across and patched - to prevent users on older versions from being targeted; but the rest of those examples are utterly bullshit.
I put forward Duolingo as another egregious example of this bullshit:
People still use duolingo?
Silence, Owl. Anki supremacy till the end.
The obvious answer is there’s no human at the helm recording changes, it’s just the next build. You’ll take it and you’ll like it.
Or that the person writing the changelog is in marketing and knows that end users will be seeing this as communication directly from the company. Marketing people tend to foam at the mouth when they see a chance to “connect with their users”.
Your hypothesis is confirmed by “Because nothing says Fall like financial progress.”
Right, like I said, no human at the helm
Hey, Chime? You can work on your creative writing when the changelog is done.
Also, it seems to have been written by an arrogant 19 year old. Everyone knows what a cornucopia is.
Sounds like ai slop changelog lol
I find it deeply offensive that an app could suggest I may not know the word “cornucopia.” I wouldn’t give a shit if it was the only app I could use to pay my bills; if it at any point suggested that I didn’t know a word as common as “cornucopia,” I would delete it immediately, leave a 0 star review, and post the offense to a community like this.
And just to be clear, the bar for how uncommon a word would have to be in order for it not be offensive is way higher than cornu-fucking-copia.
“Terpsichorean.” That’s a word I wouldn’t be offended if they thought I didn’t know it. Or maybe “legerdemain.” I know both of those words, but I wouldn’t be offended.
Hmm, those are cool
Terpsichorean - “pertaining to dance” Legerdemain - “someone who is particularly skilled with one’s hands in the use of conjuring tricks”
That was the most upsetting of all of the examples. How condescending (GoOgLe iT). What an ass.
Facebook is one of the worst:
The app must be so fast that it has transcended to a higher plane of existence if it gets faster every update.
- more ads
- more pointless notifications
- taken out that one thing you actually liked and put it behind a paywall
The meal planning app that I use got bought out by Samsung and they did this. Put a load of ads in and then advertised a “+” version that got rid of ads. The ads were just advertising the “+” feature. 12 months later they said they were going to remove the ads for everyone.
This sort of shit ought to be banned.
OMG, thank you! Until now I thought I was the only person to be fucking annoyed by this shit.
We are here. Dozens of us!
We made our interface SUCK! Can you change it back? NO!
FUCK YOU
We improved our tracking algorithms to more accurately monitor your every move.
We found an unpatched microphone exploit that let’s us listen in on all of your conversations.
I would rather no change log than the LLM generated fall thing… that was a waste of time to read.
just trust us bro, no spyware in here, bro.
That Chime one is the sloppest AI slop I’ve seen today.
Patch notes:
- A bunch of stuff you won’t like it need
I 100% agree that proper changelog should be provided, but to defend devs a litte, the play store changelog character limit makes it almost useless for anything but very small changes.
Though doing funny haha in the changelog is so dumb, they should be like “this changelog field can’t handle the changes, please see the changelog inside the app”
Could the Play Store changelog contain a link to the official changelog then?
No links allowed last time I checked.
linphone adds a link and tumblr tells people to go to their dev blog where they talk about bug fixes, updates and issues they are aware of and fixing. I dont think the play store prohibits that.
Oh ok, I just know it was frowned upon before.
Is it actually clickable as a hyperlink though?
idk about the play store or ios but im using aurora store and if you go to the app page directly you are able to copy text. And Fdroid lets you link an external change log thats click-able.
I checked the play store, the link is a clickable hyperlink.
So yeah, link to full changelog should be the gold standard then. (And including as many changes as fits ofc)
please see the changelog inside the app
Is the hope that, after updating and checking the changelog and deciding that updating is NOT for you because of some idiotic breaking-change, you just hop in the time machine and prevent yourself from updating ?
The hope is that its at least better than nothing and at least available at all.
It’s especially better than the cringe attempts at being funny or cute.
“We’re updating the segmentation logic of our A/B test infrastructure to downgrade its respect for the CloudFlare score when deciding whether or not to mark a session as coming from a bot. This was skewing the data on several of our start screen UI experiments, particularly within APAC data.”
Sometimes, you really don’t want to hear it ;D
Actually, I do. But more importantly, I should have the option
Maybe this didn’t come across from my example but my point was that a lot of changes are internal, highly technical, housekeeping, etc and unintelligible without proprietary knowledge of the entire codebase and a full code diff. It’s not going to be the benefit you think it is, and it is not reasonable to expect a full diff with every release - unless you want to go use open source software for everything.
If you want to add your desire to the list of pie-in-the-sky things that would be ideal to have in life, fine, but it’s not practical or useful in reality. Even the publishers who appear to be doing what you want are not telling you everything. There is always an undercurrent of technical housekeeping. And sometimes that’s ALL there is.
