promopacket

And an archive.is link of that one, for good measure:

https://archive.is/g8jV7

Love the slot machine mechanic of pulling to refresh [0] [1] [2].

Over the years it's grown to become quite satisfying.

Mmm.. dopamine.

[0] https://thebrag.com/truth-facebook-pull-refresh-feature/

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vv5jkb/the-secret-ways-so...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-googler-slams-designers-fo...

<emailed mods>, thanks tptacek.

Submissions without discussion aren't duplicates.

Is this going to be open-source? I'm confused about why I'd want or need to create an account.

Easily clickable links:

[0] https://quilt-data.breezy.hr/p/15c4a8807cf6-technical-lead

[1] http://archive.is/vjiLw

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13239032

Agree that it happens, and think this case is different.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351137

There is a running joke within Google that the best way to get promoted is to create another chat or video conferencing app.

Is it really a joke at this point, though?

Googler engineering leaders and teams engaging in the replacement of good chat tech with worse happens every year or two. All to demonstrate "cross-org impact" and climb the promo ladder. This is in fact the driving force behind many of the complaints mentioned in the article.

A sad and systemic failure, indeed.