Almost on queue, Twitter has recently done (twice!) what I’ve been thinking about lately. They have removed features. Removing features is very tricky and fraught with problems, even if those features are used by very few people.
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Be Careful When You Remove Features
Posted in software development methodology, tagged don't do this, features, twitter on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Twitter Notification Emails are Broken
Posted in programming, software usability, tagged features, twitter on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So the twitter changed their notification emails for when someone follows you. And they are definitely an improvement over the old notifications. But they are broken. I’ve read several articles talking about the “richer, HTML version” of the email. Richer? What year is it? Formatting doesn’t make something “rich”, data does. Data is rich, markup [...]
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