Hey LingQ! -- Fix Bugs, Stop Features, Users don't want to be Beta Testers

[jt23]

@LeifGoodwin

It makes me wonder what the problem is. Perhaps they try to support too many languages, and spend time searching for content to put into LingQ. Perhaps they don’t do any regression testing. Perhaps they do inadequate testing. Perhaps the income is too small to employ sufficient engineers. Perhaps the code base has become very hard to maintain, a common problem with older software. Or perhaps they just don’t have anyone responsible for UI design. I’ve worked on countless projects, so I’ve seen excellent practices, and dreadful practices. But I don’t know what the problem here is.

Well, yeah. I don’t know exactly what the problems are either.

But I do recognize there are serious problems which are not being addressed by adding more features with very little testing, which seems to be all that LingQ is doing.

As I see it, LingQ has a brilliant core concept of supporting comprehensible input via audio and text, but their codebase and practices are poor and LingQ would rather add features than fix and strengthen that which makes LingQ outstanding.