[soulchild77]

You missed my point. This is not about the quality of software development. It's about users bitching about everything publically (by posting to the platform's forum) because we changed something on a platform they basically use free of charge (if you can call it that, because it was financed by advertising). They act like they own everything - including me. In the real world this would probably be called antisocial behaviour, but on the Internet people renownedly lose all their good manners.

Regarding bugs: We were a very small team of just 2-3 engineers. One could argue that the business model was just wrong, but if we wanted to hire another 5+ engineers we'd have to dial up the ads like crazy (of course leading to even more user outrage). And back in those days (we're talking 1999-2012 here) our foremost problem wasn't bugs, but keeping up with the ever-rising traffic on a highly dynamic system.