Re:Ask HN: What annoys web developers?
by lsiunsuex on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:53AM
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This happened just yesterday.
Had to write a custom blog system for my day job (they don't like wordpress or etc...) Blog has been in production for months now.
Yesterday, I get an email from the blog author:
"I'd like to let you know that I'm noticing some issues with how the new Blog Comment System is working. I have been noticing these things the past couple months, and despite trying to work around them, I feel they are making it hard to get done what I need to do."
15 minutes after she sent the email, she called me (I was in a meeting), she then called another programmer who has nothing to do with the blog, who was in the same meeting, then sent a followup email to my boss making sure I got the email.
Hold on - you found a bug, you've known this was a bug for "months" now and your reporting it now? Further, months have passed until your now reporting the bug, but because I didn't acknowledge the email because I was in a meeting, your now going down the phone list, panicked, apparently, looking for help?
The devil in me says don't fix the bug for months also but I know that won't fly.
Had to write a custom blog system for my day job (they don't like wordpress or etc...) Blog has been in production for months now.
Yesterday, I get an email from the blog author:
"I'd like to let you know that I'm noticing some issues with how the new Blog Comment System is working. I have been noticing these things the past couple months, and despite trying to work around them, I feel they are making it hard to get done what I need to do."
15 minutes after she sent the email, she called me (I was in a meeting), she then called another programmer who has nothing to do with the blog, who was in the same meeting, then sent a followup email to my boss making sure I got the email.
Hold on - you found a bug, you've known this was a bug for "months" now and your reporting it now? Further, months have passed until your now reporting the bug, but because I didn't acknowledge the email because I was in a meeting, your now going down the phone list, panicked, apparently, looking for help?
The devil in me says don't fix the bug for months also but I know that won't fly.