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omg these rotation+keyboard bugs were NEVERENDING
great example of where mountainous tech debt became truly insurmountable
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do internal folks hate rotation and/or keyboards as much as we do?
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Yes. Classic problem. Lots and lots of preexisitng code, many things making poor assumptions. Crazy hard to change.
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given the number of bugs for doing some “simple” things I had always assumed no one ever cared. :^)
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More things to care about fixing than there is time, given the current drumbeat of features. :/
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I should specify, no one cared about my specific scenarios, apps that have partial rotation support.
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every time I get TweetBots TL into landscape mode my dev heart smiles and cries at the same time
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I’m surprised you didn’t say “fuck you update your damn apps”?
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Path to update was not trivial because of too-loose APIs. Things would break subtly, at runtime, with non-obvious fixes. Bad times.
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(not meant meanly: that’s a fine attitude to have to promote progress)