The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago(mastodon.online) |
The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago(mastodon.online) |
A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?
I think they all got rid of QA, and developers don't have enough time to actually care about what they're building/fixing.
GitHub/Microsoft is incredible at this. The feature for selecting and closing multiple PRs was broken for weeks even after I and others reported it. I saw duplicate "A user you've blocked has contributed to this repository" warnings (two of them, one above the other) for weeks too before that was fixed.
I've stopped reporting issues as well, as it seems to have no effect on how quick it takes, so I don't think it's an issue of not being aware of them.
This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me think something new was opened, and then I clicking to find nothing. Or in one case I ignored something which was there because I thought it was bugging out as usual.
I don't have any insider information here, but it's likely that the creator of this menu is long gone (it looks old!) and this feature is in maintenance mode. Someone--or a bot--just trying to keep the build green may have disabled the test without understanding that it was pointing to a real issue.
> Google typically has very, very thorough tests.
Yeah, sure sounds like they have figured out this whole testing thing perfectly well, if that's the case :)
I don't know if I just got seriously grumpy over time/with experience, but everything user-facing just seems so crap nowadays, unless it's made by a smaller company who actually seem to care even a tiny bit.