When perusing the changelog for a software update, which is most aggravating?
@ElectricKeet I had a bit of software with a great combo bonus for that:
"See Discord" and the Discord server had been wiped of all "old discussion". Which naturally included what I was trying to find..
@Doephin Ooooh, that one burns. "Guess you had to have been there" isn't just the antithesis of documentation, it's downright insulting!
@ElectricKeet @Doephin Our documentation is an oral tradition, so we executed the historian.
@ElectricKeet "Bug fixes and stability improvements" is so boilerplate as to be effectively useless because it tells me nothing about WHAT bugs or WHICH stability problems. They could actively be spinning bullshit and I can't actually tell.
@hystericempress Yeah, that one always rankles, especially when I see it on something with real money behind it. "Bug fixes and stability improvements" turns out to cover everything from "oops fixed an off-by-one error" to "removed functionality to prepare for the launch of the deluxe product and also added to the list of ad servers".
To clarify:
I understand that software development is often long, difficult, and thankless. I especially sympathize with smaller projects where only a couple folks are working on them and documentation is low-priority. There are legit reasons for the existence of all these types of changelogs.
Except the Discord one. Cut that crap out.