Name one thing Microsoft didn't run into the ground post-acquisition

robotmaxtron an hour ago | parent | next [-]

hey now, LinkedIn was terrible before Microsoft.

SteveNuts an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Java or Bedrock edition, and have you tried logging into your EntraID Microsoft Teams for Xbox account lately? Make sure to check the box to keep you logged in!

	▲	cedws 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Last I heard UK Minecraft players aren't even allowed to talk anymore without ID verification.

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storus an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not as bad as it is now. All I see are suggested posts from people I never connected with and those are full of instagramesque self-promoting banal vibes.

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Mindwipe 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

TBH, even LinkedIn seemed to provide me with posts advertising events that happened two weeks ago a bit less pre-acquisition.

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darkamaul an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think Minecraft is still in good shape

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embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I wouldn't know, somehow this game I bought maybe 15 years ago is no longer playable for me, my account was supposed to be migrated from Mojang to Microsoft or similar, but then that never happened or something, and trying to login now asks me to contact Microsoft support, which I've tried 3-4 times, never had anyone respond to me so who knows how the game is today? I stopped trying at this point...

Personally, once a game I own is janked from my hands because of organizational decisions, that's the time I'll stop consider the game "in good shape", but I'm sure the people who had to buy the same game a second time still enjoy it.

	▲	beart an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, the account migration was a mess. Support response times were at least 30 days, if you ever actually received a response at all (I never did). I did buy the game a second time in order to play with my kids.

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bspammer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They deleted my account from 2010 because I didn't convert it to a Microsoft one. They baked an incredibly aggressive chat filter into multiplayer, even if you're not playing on official servers. They've added microtransactions for things that we previously free (skins, resource packs). They force you into their shitty, bloated, user-hostile launcher with adverts.

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somewhatgoated 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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elzbardico 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

GH was acquired by microsoft some eight years ago. It has been working quite well until recently.

People may have had complaints about functionality, features, commercial issues, but the thing used to at least have a decent uptime until recently.

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chris_money202 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Has nothing to do with Microsoft acquisition... AI usage has increased demand and load. More PRs, more Action runners, more of everything firing. GitHub just wasn't ready for the scale and are now having issues catching up with it as it continues to increase exponentially.

	▲	lqstuart 15 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		MSFT is also forcing its subsidiaries to “lean into AI” so that they can fire people to cover for Satya’s bad investments
	▲	voncheese 30 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, that and Microsoft has been slow to move the infrastructure to something that scales better to handle that load. The more surpassing part is that Microsoft hasn't figured out a way to manage/contain the AI-sourced traffic better so it doesn't create all this noisy neighbor problems for non-AI usage/users.

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05hundred an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It has been working quite well until recently.

I'm not sure how reliable the data is, but average uptime seems to have dipped measurably starting within a year of the aquisition, according to https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

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bsimpson 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It also used to be run as an independent company with access to MS's resources.

Now it's a unit in their AI hype machine.

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modriano an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

MSFT was pretty arms length for the first 5-6 years. I was honestly kind of impressed and it made my opinion of MSFT better. But then AI made it too attractive of a target and MSFT couldn't help but make it a place the former CEO wanted to leave (and it has been running headless for about a year now).

It's quite disappointing objectively, but I expected worse from MSFT.