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[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Without some serious mental gymnastics, forced stealth sections tend to just be bad design choices. Not every bad thing is the same kind of bad thing.

While I disagree with your comment on the definition of "enshittification", I agree that forced stealth sections are just bad design. I remember those have been a thing for a long time now, and before then it was ice levels.

Copying from a later reply: I was reading their definition as being too specific. Imo enshittification is any time the relative average quality of a class of products or services decreases, either due to increased prices or decreased quality at the same price. This can be applied to a specific product or service, but can also describe a decline in quality across an industry.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wikipedia isn't the end all, but in this case I think it provides a working definition.

Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

I was reading your definition as being too specific. Imo enshittification is any time the relative average quality of a class of products or services decreases, either due to increased prices or decreased quality at the same price. This can be applied to a specific product or service, but can also describe a decline in quality across an industry.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The term is more specific than that, referring to runaway capitalism being the cause. Otherwise you'd just use something simpler like "worsening."

The original context comes from a 2022 blog post.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah, Escort Missions are way worse than Ice. They're always so janky too

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