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0 pointsUptrenda2y ago0 comments

I'm so tired of chat apps. Every chat app is the same crap done over and over again... But apparently its 'new' and you need to download it because its the only one X uses, yayyyy. It's like scheduling: the problem was solved already but everyones obsessed with redoing them.

Does anyone who works on apps / software / whatever ever consider how tiring it is to have to adopt all this sheet? It's like the digital equivalent of fashion. Literally just waxes and wanes between apps that are all functionally the same based on trends.

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bruh22y ago

This is extremely tiring, especially since:

1. Important info is hosted on these platforms

2. It's impossible to look this info up. Their internal search functions feel like their optimized for finding distracting shit rather than finding what you were actually looking for.

I hate it with a burning passion, and I secretly wish for all of these companies to be nationalized and have like 90% of their features deprecated. I hate having my attention abused like that. It's too much hassle and FOMO to uninstall these apps, and I need like 3 external tools to limit my usage to sane volumes.

This is not a top-priotity problem at all, nor one that I think of frequently (just an hour a day), yet I can't fathom how some higher-ups waste their lives thinking of these shticks

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