Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
by astrobe_ on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:44AM
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> When you have a whole team working on a huge piece of software,
Then don't freaking do that. There's no reason to make one huge app with thousands of features that justifies teams of dozens of devs instead of tools that do just one thing (and can be used in a modular way) correctly and nothing more.
Actually, there's one terrible reason: the bigger the app, the higher the wall around the garden and that serves as a justification for the price tag. It's the wrong way of doing things because business. It's exactly the same evil principle as the one which is at work when the sugar or the tobacco industry do their slightly questionable stuff.
Then don't freaking do that. There's no reason to make one huge app with thousands of features that justifies teams of dozens of devs instead of tools that do just one thing (and can be used in a modular way) correctly and nothing more.
Actually, there's one terrible reason: the bigger the app, the higher the wall around the garden and that serves as a justification for the price tag. It's the wrong way of doing things because business. It's exactly the same evil principle as the one which is at work when the sugar or the tobacco industry do their slightly questionable stuff.