When perusing the changelog for a software update, which is most aggravating?

@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".

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