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Discussion on: One of the coolest parts about the web is being eroded

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Guillaume Martigny

Funny to note that the same is true for mechanical engineering. Cars are harder and harder to "debug".

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Ben Halpern

Absolutely, but it's hard to say that this is unavoidable. If it were more of a priority, people would be building more debuggable systems, not less.

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John Kennedy

Capitalism in action - if you make it difficult to impossible to repurpose, repair, reuse... the product then you encourage or force users to purchase new items.

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sleepycommerce • Edited

That's for sure the mission of the SaaS sausage machine. But really the bar will always rise higher with innovation. I personally couldn't have ever understood the method to my current madness my first year and I purposely obfuscate for my own safety when possible. I also believe it's better to take inspiration form another's work vs replication or finding out "exactly" how they did X. I personally enjoy the current hide and seek some sites use these days