[jstummbillig]

What world are you living in where the median piece of software has a million users? Or even a hundredth of that?

[shermantanktop]

I work on software with millions of users..? Sure, it’s not the median, but it exists and there’s a lot of it.

Unfortunately the number of users and the collective value of their wasted time doesn’t make arguing for efficiency and performance any easier.

[herewulf]

The one we're in where "software" doesn't just mean an app that someone downloads from a website or an app store. Software includes lots of server side components, etc, etc.

I once noticed my name in the Chromium OS credits due to a patch I had submitted to a library that's on every Chromebook. 1 million would be a small number for Chromebooks alone.

[dns_snek]

I'm not talking about the median piece of software with 2 users and 0.1 developers (I made that up).

The ones that stick out are actively maintained, widely used, and well funded. It doesn't have to be a million active users, but they should be the first to get their act together.

[TeMPOraL]

It's what many software companies dream of and aim for. But the same argument works with 10k users, or even 1k users.