So it cannot have been an error propagating only in the past couple of days.
No, that's what makes it interesting for me as a tester. They did a live beta test of it before a full rollout site-wide. I'm curious as to what their criteria was for teh beta test.
Bottom line, regardless of the real story, this is not about human errors or about most software built-in obsolescence or about the complexity of huge databases like Amazon's: this is about the fact that we need to support other, smaller bookstores -both physical and online- to ensure that Amazon cannot become the next evil Empire. Which they will, if things continue as they are, because power corrupts...
I'm not actually disagreeing with any of that. What this specific post was for was to state that it doesn't matter whether it's deliberate or not, what was done cannot be undone with a single flick of the switch. And especially if they've been doing a live beta since February on some authors. A full rollout of new code would be one thing ot remove, but they have to track back and pick up their beta code and remove that as well. That might take extra time, especially with at least two months of database updates since then.
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No, that's what makes it interesting for me as a tester. They did a live beta test of it before a full rollout site-wide. I'm curious as to what their criteria was for teh beta test.
Bottom line, regardless of the real story, this is not about human errors or about most software built-in obsolescence or about the complexity of huge databases like Amazon's: this is about the fact that we need to support other, smaller bookstores -both physical and online- to ensure that Amazon cannot become the next evil Empire. Which they will, if things continue as they are, because power corrupts...
I'm not actually disagreeing with any of that. What this specific post was for was to state that it doesn't matter whether it's deliberate or not, what was done cannot be undone with a single flick of the switch. And especially if they've been doing a live beta since February on some authors. A full rollout of new code would be one thing ot remove, but they have to track back and pick up their beta code and remove that as well. That might take extra time, especially with at least two months of database updates since then.