![]() Yesterday, Spotify was using 60+ GB of memory (!!!). It's a bad look, and makes me think less of the developers at Spotify and the company as a whole. Eventually, it will effect the bottom line though, as Spotify's reputation/image is damaged. The fixes never get prioritized, even if they wouldn't take much effort, because it only effects the user experience/happiness and doesn't directly translate into the all-important bottom line. ![]() Stupid, seemingly easy-to-fix bugs are introduced and never fixed, even as people complain. It makes me think that the company is poorly run from a broader, project management perspective. I have 5+ years of a music catalog built up in Spotify, but I'm almost at that point. It's not an unreasonable position to take as a growing company-there's basically an infinite amount of work to do and only so many developers. And it generally works, until you reach a tipping point, where the application is so painful to use that people actually leave. They don't listen to us, and we continue to pay-we're suckers. ![]() Spotify has demonstrated their priorities over the past few years: introduce new features (and bugs) before fixing the user experience and existing bugs. Spotify on Mac is shockingly slow and freezes.
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