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

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    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:

  • answersplease77@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    3 days ago

    You expect them to admit:

    • Implemented more aggressive collection of personal data to sell to advertisers.

    • Advertisers of medical and beauty supplements are now suggested to your teenage daughter if she deleted her picture minutes after not receieving likes.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Data collection now includes geophraphical tracking of your friends and intrests of people you follow giving higher revenue for shareholders.

    • Implemented analysis of background data collection of users usage and screen time, which gives higher profits per click to our targetted adveretisers.

  • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    33·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      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”.

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        202·
        4 days ago

        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.

        • Kalothar@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Hmm, those are cool

          Terpsichorean - “pertaining to dance” Legerdemain - “someone who is particularly skilled with one’s hands in the use of conjuring tricks”

      • JargonWagon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        That was the most upsetting of all of the examples. How condescending (GoOgLe iT). What an ass.

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      The app must be so fast that it has transcended to a higher plane of existence if it gets faster every update.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    30·
    3 days ago
    • more ads
    • more pointless notifications
    • taken out that one thing you actually liked and put it behind a paywall
    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      40·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
    67·
    4 days ago

    I would rather no change log than the LLM generated fall thing… that was a waste of time to read.

  • vodka@feddit.orgEnglish
    37·
    4 days ago

    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”

        • kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          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.

          • vodka@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Oh ok, I just know it was frowned upon before.

            Is it actually clickable as a hyperlink though?

            • kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              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.

              • vodka@feddit.orgEnglish
                3·
                3 days ago

                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)

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      111·
      4 days ago

      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 ?

      • vodka@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        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.

      • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I mean, realistically it’s not possible to keep using an older version anyway. After a month or two it might stop working due to backend changes, unless it’s truly an offline app like a calculator, then maybe it will only break after a longer period.

        So your choice is update or uninstall anyway.

        Like, do you seriously know anyone who uses “this app, version from March 2022” and “that app, version from January 2023” because that’s their favourite versions of these apps? It’s just not a thing that happens.

        Just like for websites. But I don’t ever see people complaining that websites don’t usually have changelogs. You just get the latest version every time you refresh and you can’t do anything about it. And if they don’t like changes, they stop using it, not try to reverse time.