Enough With It

"Victorious Secret" (victorioussecret)
10/18/2013 at 16:54 • Filed to: None

Seriously, what is wrong with you?

We get it, you hate Kinja and hate change. Now either contact IT with genuine criticism so they can work on improving it, get back to posting normal shit, or just fuck off to Autoblog so you can bitch about how awful redesigns are.

DISCUSSION (13)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Victorious Secret
10/18/2013 at 16:56

Aye aye, sir! One Renault Dauphin pic coming right up.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Victorious Secret
10/18/2013 at 16:57

No, we can't go to Autoblog to bitch about redesigns.

Autoblog is for bitching about BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA and how anything car-related in the middle east is because THOSE BROWN ANIMALS HAVE SPENT OUR OIL MONEY!

Wave Motion Gun > Victorious Secret
10/18/2013 at 16:59

Wait. They changed Kinja?

Manuél Ferrari > Victorious Secret
10/18/2013 at 17:06

Agree. My company is in IT and I see what goes into software design.

Could Gawker Media have purchased or built an enterprise-grade system with less bugs? Sure, but not at a price point that would work for its business model.

Software development is expensive. Gawker Media sites are free to users. Yes there are advertising dollars but they need to pay for other operating costs as well and can't be 100% dedicated to software development.

Kinja does its job pretty well considering all this. It will improve over time and have less bugs. Users complaining about changes in each iteration are silly. It's impossible to add features without making changes.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Manuél Ferrari
10/18/2013 at 17:12

The improvements are rarely improvements, though, and features aren't really added all that often. It feels like change for the sake of change. I realize an IT department has to justify its existence, but just because it still works well enough and is still free does not a reason for doing something make.

rabbitman > Victorious Secret
10/18/2013 at 17:12

OMG Change noooo. wait till the new facebook hit's them. The tears will shed

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Victorious Secret
10/18/2013 at 17:13

When has Gawker IT ever cared about genuine criticism? We're talking about large philosophical issues here, not little niggles.

Plus, there's been a lot of specific, constructive criticism posted. It just happens to be laced with profanity.

Manuél Ferrari > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
10/18/2013 at 17:19

I agree that sometimes the improvements don't seem like improvements. But my guess is that there is a reason behind all of them. Unless their management is just totally clueless they wouldn't make changes just for the sake of change.

Changes that may seem pointless to us may be helping their back-end folks be more efficient or may have other reasons for being made.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Manuél Ferrari
10/18/2013 at 17:25

I'll buy that for the last big Kinja update; while it made things different for users (better in most ways), I think the big improvement was for the editors/writers and their ability to distribute/hijack info to/from the sub-blogs and all of that.

This one looks a lot like a user-oriented upgrade to me, though, and it's not off to a promising start.

Manuél Ferrari > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
10/18/2013 at 17:57

Hopefully they can recover from the shaky start. If users submit useful feedback they can improve things.

I would love to get a behind the covers peek at how they manage their development and deployments.

pdthedeuce > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
10/18/2013 at 18:22

“Change, for change's sake, is a recipe for failure.”

Travis J Hedrick, Th.D, MBA

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > pdthedeuce
10/18/2013 at 18:46

This is the internet; you have to immediately discard anything someone with an MBA says.

pdthedeuce > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
10/18/2013 at 18:46

lol