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What's your opinion on automatic updates? Reasonable policy? Or Digital Authoritarianism? (piefed.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I am fine with bug fixes and maybe feature additions. This is the main reason I usually leave automatic updates on for things.

I am not fine with drastic changes that rearrange the UI or remove functionality that once existed. Or, in the case of some video games, completely changing the game from what I bought into a different game I didn't ask for.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's hard to balance. I used to work on an open source project with UI that grew organically with added features, with no plan. At some point it was just a disorganised mess of things added on top of other things.

    So we remade the UI from scratch and the result, I think, was much better, intuitive, and approachable to new users. But of course some existing users were unhappy, because however bad the existing UI was, it was one they were already used to.

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