Doubtlessly true, but by the same token I suspect they're running better than ever without Elon around to "help". Their employees certainly seem to think so.

Didn't do much for me. I tried a few different things and they were mostly a waste of time. I did recently pick up the Sylvania restoration kits and that shit was like night and day difference.

The only trick is that their "3 step" process is bullshit. It's a lot of sanding and cleaning and sanding and cleaning and before you know it you'll be on step 12 of 3 and only halfway through. But it works and the difference at night is definitely noticable.

there’s a special place in heaven for kanban lovers that’s what i always say

Conceivably you could open source the algorithm, or even better, have a variety of algorithms to choose from with custom parameters.

In a similar vein, I'm not sure if anyone remembers Slacker Radio, but it was a competitor to Pandora/Spotify/etc. It had its drawbacks (hence why it isn't around anymore), but I absolutely loved the amount of control you had when building custom stations. You'd first seed a custom station with a bunch of musicians you like, and then there were a number of parameters which allowed you to fine-tune the algorithm to a remarkable extent, well beyond what today's music apps offer.

I'd love to get to a place where we have options other than just saying "welp the algorithm" and just giving up, I think that the ability to customize one's algos would be a killer feature that the fediverse can offer which the major platforms generally won't.

I work in data analysis and reporting on various feedback systems is part of my regular role. Every company's data culture is different, so you can't simply say "X is the reason why they're doing this". It could be:

• Maybe they are incorporating the data into agent/product reviews.
• Maybe they are trying to guide product & feature development on a quantitative basis
• Maybe at one point a product manager wanted to be "data-driven", so a feedback system was set up, but now it's basically ignored now that they haven't been with the company for over a year and nobody wants to take ownership of it. But it's more effort to remove than just leave in place.
• Maybe it's used when we want to highlight our successes, and ignored when we want to downplay results we don't like

What I've found is that there are a lot of confounding factors. For example, I work for a job board, and most people use the Overall Satisfaction category as more of a general measurement of how their job search is going, or whether or not they got the interview, rather than an assessment of how well our platform serves that purpose. And it's usually going very shittily because job searching is a generally shitty process even when everything is going "right".

It's shocking to see how bad they've become at what used to be their core function. I mean their brand name became the verb for looking something up on the internet. Now it just returns a useless mix of advertising, blogspam, AI spam, and sometimes-useful reddit results.

I'm also not quite happy with the search experience due to them constantly moving UI components around randomly. First they started shuffling around the order of the search tabs (All, Images, Videos, Shopping, News) erratically, and now they've also decided to also start including what they believe may be related search terms there as well, sometimes.

I'm really curious what rank-and-file reddit employees think about Steve Huffman and this whole affair. The guy has singlehandedly taken a match to their equity and I can't imagine that would prompt a positive response.