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by notatoad 1730 days ago
changelogs and release notes don't get read. unless you're sending personal emails to the users who requested the feature, the experience in the essay here is the only way: make it automatic or turned on by default.

and if it's not good enough to be automatic or enabled by default, then keep iterating until it is.

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Changelogs are for developers, not users.

They're a bad way to communicate specifics because they're literally a long list of changes, most of which are boring/irrelevant to most people.

If you're releasing new features you need more ceremony. Maybe an email with targeted specifics, or at least a section on your website which highlights big important new features.