[roughly]

I heard a phrase a while back: “the subtle gaslighting of A/B testing” - that feeling that you’re pretty sure that button used to be over there, or the app used to have that function, but not entirely sure, because one day it’s just Different, no release or upgrade or reinstall, just - it’s not the same anymore - or, is it?

[ephimetheus]

This is super frustrating. I’ve described it like feeling like you have Alzheimer’s as everything changes all the time.

[nescioquid]

My wife once handed me her newer-model android phone to fix something for her. I thought I was having a stroke because I couldn't find the settings icon anymore.

[mdp2021]

> the subtle gaslighting of A/B testing

It surely would be so... What could trigger that in an application? Some of us have never seen any such behaviour (fortunately for anybody responsible and huntable). Maybe said applications are web-based, mostly front-end?

[ephimetheus]

The native Revolut app (at least on iOS) had been doing this excessively for a while. I think they toned it down now.

[roughly]

Ain’t just web. Plenty of well-defined feature flag frameworks for mobile, too.