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RE: social.coop/@cwebber/116217717

Systemd (popular component to many {most?} Linux distributions) getting enshittified by AI.

Read @cwebber 's thread quoted below for more.

Also, thanks a lot (thanks a bot?) daandemeyer.

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I've sadly come to conclude that (my beloved survey platform started by some fresh-faced Mormon boys from BYU 20 years ago) has become kind of enshittified.

For almost 20 years the company has had requests to add pretty reasonable features like (definitely not an exhaustive list):

  • Vertical sliders
  • Text orientation in labels
  • non-numerical recodes (this has looked like it worked for at least 15 years)
  • Parity in options between matrix, sliders, and side-by-side questions

Several others, too. Nope. 15-20 year old feature requests still unanswered, unfixed. I got off the phone with customer service and their beast answer or vertical sliders or CSS-rotated slider/matrix labels was "check our community help forums, though we don't support anything they say."

The sad thing is that there seem to be so few viable alternatives.

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