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Bingo! Watch and be afraid....

https://youtu.be/s-vJcOfrvi0



All that effort to make a weird "feature" that no user actually wanted. The reason it took them all that work to do is that the assumption that you wouldn't reorder seasons was baked into the architecture. For the engineers that designed it was just unthinkable, and for good reason.


This made reading this whole thread worth it. Right when i was feeling bad about coasting in some small company..


Both the video clip and the guy's personal experience at Netflix were Hilarious. And have gone through this too (as most of us have).

Yeah, typical corporate development, where often the smallest of changes can be a nightmare:)




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