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Written by lawless polymorph on 2025-01-27 at 11:58

when there is some usability issue and instead of fixing it, the programmer introduces a second way of doing things that is also broken

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Written by lawless polymorph on 2025-01-27 at 11:59

i'm using a music program that has a broken shuffle. instead of fixing it, the developers added a second shuffle mode that is also broken.

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Written by lawless polymorph on 2025-01-27 at 12:03

to be specific, the shuffle modes are now:

• "shuffle", which internally creates a random permutation of the playlist and then repeats this permutation forever. so if you listen to this for too long the songs start repeating in the same order.

• "random", which picks a random song each time, without consideration for whether a song has just been played or not.

😔

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Written by lawless polymorph on 2025-01-27 at 12:11

anyway my point wasn't to rag on some random music program developer, but to point out a super common software development fallacy, the idea that you can make up for a poorly designed feature by adding more features.

more bad options is not preferable to one good option.

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Written by Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D. on 2025-01-27 at 13:34

@typeswitch There are probably a lot of opinions about the “correct” thing to do here … and most music players seem to give only one or two poor options 😕

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