it all mirrors the Twitter takeover (fetishizing "hardcore coders", micromanagement, randomly breaking or cancelling things), so this might just be how Elon Musk approaches things.
I have no idea what proportion of Twitter's jobs were necessary or not, but it is DEFINITELY not fine.
From images routinely failing to load, to the current mess of logins that is the dualistic nature of x.com vs twitter.com (where which accts appear logged in fluctuates constantly), to my favorite bug, where it's always stuck in dark mode in mobile browsers...
And that's just technologically. Firing moderators, letting neonazis run rampant, and driving away advertisers and non-nazis...
Honestly, they might as well have brought back the Fail Whale.
I’ve not really noticed any significant increase in problems with the mobile app, and there are some new features like the view counter.
Overall though I’d expect much worse problems to occur from firing the majority of a workforce. If that had happened at my workplace there’d be lots of data loss, downtime and show stopping bugs. Because the work people do is essential to the product and although we have some level of redundancy to reduce key man risk, that wouldn’t work if 80% of people left.
