Mildly Infuriating

It least Instagram straight up doesn't give a changelog, rather than letting you read dumb exposition that tells you nothing. (Thats still crap tho)

That's been a joke in the Playstation community for years now:

"Stability Improvements."

Well, shit, we must have the most stable system in the universe at this point...

Pumpkins and... hay...?

"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

"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.

That Chime one is the sloppest AI slop I've seen today.

Also fuck all these ads reminding me its going to be cold soon.

"General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience."

Also happens with some apps on fdroid. "Update available" - click to see, nothing there

Change logs are kinda hard to do in a CI/CD environment because of the way that development style works.

It's actually pretty challenging in general. Not sure you've ever built a change log before but it's a pretty interesting exercise thats easier said then done. Even open source logs just copy paste the commit log which can be not all that helpful.

I asked this on the Motorola sub when i first got my phone and no one gives a shit.

The changelog was always something like "various bugfixes and stability updates". removed, what did you do?

Whats New in this Textra update?

• Bug fixes

• Improvements

AFAIK discord does it on the app.
But its more convenient if they added it to the changelog.

Slack does this all the time.

The first one is cute one time. When it starts to become a pattern, it’s laziness. Especially when it’s copypasta, which it usually is.

Change long Probably be like

-- Fixed typo that corrupted the database

-- Fixed hardcoded credentials

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.

Because there's a very strict character limit on the Google Play store side for update messages. So if it's a bigger update, all I can do is put a summary of the changelog there.

Wish we could upload videos, I recorded this exact same issue a few days ago with Spotify. I use a modded Spotify and curious to the updates. Thus I checked their App Store and this what’s been spammed on their App Store page;

“We are continuously busy making Spotify much better! Don’t want to miss anything? Make sure you have automatic updates on!”

Every single google made app does this, why would anyone else do anything different if the creators aren't willing to put In the effort either?

That looks so much better than having only “General fixes and improvements”

In general, I agree, though. Quite regularly I would prefer better update notes, release notes, etc.

I always just blame Dave and his bugs.

"Mariah thawing"

That's grim

...and you should thank them for it. you ingrates! Because, after all they have been granting you the undecieved privilege of deciding for yourselves what software to install for too long. We should all thank Google for taking that burden away from us, soon, as well as Apple who never granted anything to anyone. Not for free, that is, and not much anyway.