As in Niantic actually restored a bug after having fixed it.
Welcome back to 24 hour partial lock-out from gyms you have boss raided. This time it's even worse than before. About every second terminated battle results in you having to revive two pokemon, out of which one hasn't even seen combat.
Monday, July 02, 2018
Sunday, July 01, 2018
There is now a level zero
I've posted earlier artiles about close to criminal ineptitude from Niantic's side.
So here's another one.
The interface for handling friends. Right now it highlights one of the problems inherent with abusing agile software development. I'm talking MVP here, and I don't mean most valuable player. MVP stands for minimum viable product.
Problem being when this gets abused. Because whenever this happens there's no difference between MVP and cripple ware.
Which is exactly what we have been given by Niantic.
It's an MVP because we use it as it's the only way to access the friends features. It's also most definitely cripple ware that should never have gone live.
Let's run through a couple of the most glaring idiocies:
Niantic sells this game with the built in camera functionality as an argument. It's beyond me what alterative reality they live in when I can't use that functionality to QR-scan a new friend instead of typing in 12 digits.
Ever tried to send a gift with a lot of friends late in the day? Just mark up the friends who have yet to receive a gift from you. Oh, but you can't.
In fact you can't sort your friends at all.
In fact the list autoresorts after you open a gift forcing you to swipe and swipe and swipe until you can access that friend again.
In any reasonably competent company releasing features in this state is a perfectly valid reason to fire the staff. It's not like they add any value to the company anyway...
So here's another one.
The interface for handling friends. Right now it highlights one of the problems inherent with abusing agile software development. I'm talking MVP here, and I don't mean most valuable player. MVP stands for minimum viable product.
Problem being when this gets abused. Because whenever this happens there's no difference between MVP and cripple ware.
Which is exactly what we have been given by Niantic.
It's an MVP because we use it as it's the only way to access the friends features. It's also most definitely cripple ware that should never have gone live.
Let's run through a couple of the most glaring idiocies:
Niantic sells this game with the built in camera functionality as an argument. It's beyond me what alterative reality they live in when I can't use that functionality to QR-scan a new friend instead of typing in 12 digits.
Ever tried to send a gift with a lot of friends late in the day? Just mark up the friends who have yet to receive a gift from you. Oh, but you can't.
In fact you can't sort your friends at all.
In fact the list autoresorts after you open a gift forcing you to swipe and swipe and swipe until you can access that friend again.
In any reasonably competent company releasing features in this state is a perfectly valid reason to fire the staff. It's not like they add any value to the company anyway...
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