Elmo Lahti

Some time ago, the team made the weird decision to remove the routines feature, claiming that most people didn’t use it. Not only is it unwise to upset your app’s power users, this was also a clear discovereability issue. Making a routine required a long press of a specific button, and this wasn’t easy to know. Now the app doesn’t really stand out anymore, it’s like so many others. I hope the team realizes their mistake.

Used to be one of the finest examples of the simple artform that is mobile game design. Then something changed, and it was decided that no longer mattered. Interfaces were reworked to squeeze out as much money as possible using the most intrusive of ads and microtransactions. Maximizing profits gave way to so many interruptions as to make the game itself nearly unplayble. And the only escape they can offer you is a premium upgrade… that is temporary. Now it’s just one of the most unoriginal examples of the profit-driven desperation that plagues the medium. The relic that is the Orwellian th