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.
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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".
Your hypothesis is confirmed by "Because nothing says Fall like financial progress."
Right, like I said, no human at the helm
You expect them to admit:
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Implemented more aggressive collection of personal data to sell to advertisers.
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Advertisers of medical and beauty supplements are now suggested to your teenage daughter if she deleted her picture minutes after not receieving likes.
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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.
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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.
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Data collection now includes geophraphical tracking of your friends and intrests of people you follow giving higher revenue for shareholders.
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Implemented analysis of background data collection of users usage and screen time, which gives higher profits per click to our targetted adveretisers.
does lemmy.world not allow bitch? lol thats funny
or is it something else like cunt
Censorship of words is the dumbest thing to me. People simply change the word. Keep playing R-worded whack-a-mole lmao.
lmao...! Yes Lemmy censored my comment but I hope I dont get banned for it. I was mocking facebook content policy changes which the Zuck implemented to lick Trump's removed which was part of his $25Million settlement to avoid repercussions for banning his account back when Biden was in Office.
- more ads
- more pointless notifications
- taken out that one thing you actually liked and put it behind a paywall
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.
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:
People still use duolingo?
Silence, Owl. Anki supremacy till the end.
OMG, thank you! Until now I thought I was the only person to be fucking annoyed by this shit.
We are here. Dozens of us!
Facebook is one of the worst:
The app must be so fast that it has transcended to a higher plane of existence if it gets faster every update.
“We’re updating the segmentation logic of our A/B test infrastructure to downgrade its respect for the CloudFlare score when deciding whether or not to mark a session as coming from a bot. This was skewing the data on several of our start screen UI experiments, particularly within APAC data.”
Sometimes, you really don’t want to hear it ;D
"performance improvements and bug fixes"
... which is also almost verbatim what it says at the bottom of the "good" example...
... in a addition to a link where they explain their "improvements and bug fixes" in greater detail without character limits. So yes it is a "good" example.
Patch notes:
- A bunch of stuff you won't like it need
For apps with generic update messages that also have source control and changelogs available: check to see how often the updates are just a manifest version bump and nothing more. Way greater than zero.
Most version revs for apps are just to reset review count and bury negative reviews with “review of an older version”.
It’s all gamification of walled gardens. Walled gardens that need to die.
Even Google does the same with almost every app like Maps, Files, Chrome.
Who the hell uses Google Files for anything but a bad file picker?
I created a folder using Simple Gallery but it couldn't see it. I created a couple more with the same issue. Google Files saw them just fine. Simple Gallery does see them now. I'm guessing that the issue had something to do with the Android 16 upgrade though I didn't update the app and there wasn't a follow-up update to the upgrade.
Ahow many updates receives an app, is now considered a "good" metric somehow now. So now if dependabot pushes a PR, it's a new release on the app stores (of course without testing)
The algorithms on the app stores now consider the app "active" and push the app "up" in ranking
There was a certain billionaire bragging about his app getting 3 vibe-coded updates a day while the competition "only" got 3 a week
So, they can't write a real change log. What can they write? "Dependabot updated leftpad from 1.1.3.2 to 1.1.3.3" "untested: updated Gradle from 8.14.2 to 8.14.3" "200mb update to change a comma in the Hungarian translation"
That Chime one is the sloppest AI slop I've seen today.
chime: a PM asked an AI to write this after the only dev that knew how to do this quit
Discord: The PM was frustrated with the devs not summarizing this release crap that no one cares about anyway and hid it behind a link ah that's so much cleaner now.
Instagram: fuck you
Linphone:
"General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience."
"Bugfixes and performance improvements"
I see that one all the time from big companies because it sounds nice and tells you nothing.
One of those updates a few years included embedding adware. So, thanks for that... jackhole
I think a lot of times they don’t want you to know what’s been updated. For instance, pointing out all the bugs you’re fixing might make your app look like it’s always full of bugs. Or the security fix might draw attention to issues that exist for currently outdated apps.
Not saying it’s a good reason, but maybe that’s their thought process.
"We are hard at work making discord work better for you"
While content being completely locked away inside proprietary app.
I dont know, I feel like all these fake messages are quite dystopian. What happened to actually treating users as intelligent? I guess maybe today most users dont know anything about tech so thats why this is happening.
My bank's app recently went like "We've implemented a feature if you use our widget, and also one hidden feature." Like fucking just tell me what the fuck that's about? I'm not looking for easter eggs in my fucking bank app.