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Re:Deleting 50k Lines of Code in 3 Days by rightbyte on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:16AM (#38640991)
Ye this is a terrible way to do refactoring. And I mean, "page visits"? In theory all users could be affected by the removed features.

The 0.1% and 99.9% are not complements!

"Data driven" development is so much BS since so many devs don't care to think properly about sampling and statistics.

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Re:Deleting 50k Lines of Code in 3 Days by some_random on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:30AM (#38641115)
It makes me wonder how many people hit the checkout flow on some websites, I'm sure the numbers for some people (automakers maybe) aren't too dissimilar.
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Re:Deleting 50k Lines of Code in 3 Days by aakashns on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:34AM (#38643220)
We do have a checkout flow, and yes, that page is visited by a very small number of users. However, you don't actually think I deleted the checkout flow, do you?
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Re:Deleting 50k Lines of Code in 3 Days by some_random on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:38AM (#38643285)
No of course not, my point is that sometimes pages, code, and flows that are used by a minority of users are vital to business operations.
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