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I wanna hear the untold stories of the huge architectural and data migrations that go into the “smallest” changes like when Slack added the ability to add someone to a group DM and *move past messages* to the new conversation or how Amazon no longer asks which Kindle to send your library book to

you gotta assume that these were both enormous efforts that were probably years in the making. all to make it work the way it should’ve worked in the first place

put another way: I'm interested in hearing about times when people modeled their data in the wrong way and why

twitch has “shared chats”??

wouldn’t be surprised if shopify had to rewrite huge chunks of the editor to enable copy paste x.com/r3ckoningid/...

I vaguely recall something from Notion about the challenges of some text editing operations when the document is modelled as editable blocks rather than a single continuous editor