Post #2256488
2026-03-04 19:26 UTC
@dalias@hachyderm.io @JeremiahFieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place @techokami@woof.tech @marekfort@mastodon.online It’s not about cost cutting, it’s about providing better products.
Most people don’t give a shit about working with a dev to fix a bug or improve a product. They want their thing to work without thinking about it.
And some of us do it all without even tracking what city a user is in, let alone who they are individually.
Not all telemetry is bad.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-03-04 20:33
@jimmylittle@hachyderm.io @JeremiahFieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place @techokami@woof.tech @marekfort@mastodon.online Products are obviously, demonstrably worse than back when software shipped on disks and you had to get it right before shipping because there were no second chances to just push an update. Because back then, you actually had serious QA/testing. I'm not suggesting you should make users do back-and-forth helping you fix bugs as the alternative to spying on them. I'm saying that if you should spend the money on QA teams rather than spying on users as a shortcut. All telemetry is bad.