I’m writing about RSS, praising its resilience. Meanwhile technology is fucking with me.
Outlook! I don’t know what the hell happened with their last redesign but it’s so bad (I’m still using the old interface through some link). Bad enough that I’m really on the verge of leaving any webmail behind for good and forever. UI/UX is super sensitive these days because we use those services day in day out. Don’t fucking change the interface like you’re doing me a favor. We’re not at that point anymore.
Flickr! A nightmare. All my photos/pictures there. All the links to my blog. I paid for years, then it became free. Now they charge twice as much, want to delete pictures if I don’t spit the money. I tried to pay with a coupon, couldn’t do it. Tried to get help, no answer. People who try to download their stuff say some pictures are corrupted. I’m freaking out about my content but also goddamn, it’s so sad. Flickr had everything. I trusted them. 13 years, fuck.
Nest! This is supposed to be the best thing in the world. It isn’t. it’s dumb as shit. It keeps pushing heat when it’s not really necessary and doesn’t when it should (like during a super wet week). It’s supposed to be “learning” but I’m mostly learning that it sucks. Cold is coming from the floors anyway, that’s where it should be heated. That’s why my FLW, Neutra and Lautner were building houses with radiant heating floors a hundred years ago. Today, we’re just stupid. We’re blasting hot air in shoe boxes and calling it a day.
Ugh.