Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
by ryandrake on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:36PM
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Yea, I don't mean to target individual software developers here. "Developers gotta develop" is commentary on the entire industry, and all the contributors, including developers, UI designers, product owners, QA, executive sponsors. I remember hearing the saying "Programmers are like beavers. Leave a beaver alone to decide what to do and they'll just keep building dams, regardless of the fact that their home is done." I don't know if that's really true about beavers, but it's true about software organizations. The whole software development team will just continue working on the software even long past the point where they're done.
Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software
by JackMorgan on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:10PM
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Software compatibility with current modern platforms is a feature, and an owner of software isn't entitled to forward compatibility any more than an owner of a car is entitled to new parts as the old ones degrade.
Software degradation is much like hardware degradation: it happens with time as underlying platforms change.
and then you move the bar a little (although I agree):
> Bugfixes only, please.
I would also add updating to work with the current OS / hardware. (I have unusable games that are a recompile away from being usable.)
But I agree with the rest of your points. Especially when, in addition to asking you to fund new features, the new features make the app worse for your use cases.
However I don't know if the root cause is more accurately described as "developers gotta develop" or "product managers gotta produce".