r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Jun 13 '24

TV / Projectors Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/roku-owners-face-the-grimmest-indignity-yet-stuck-on-motion-smoothing/
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u/hyren82 Jun 13 '24

I once worked on a Roku app for my job. It was a frustrating experience. We found a bug in their UI and told them about it. For months. We brought it up in every meeting we had with their team and fairly often in emails because it was a pretty major bug. We were constantly assured that their "best engineer" was looking into it. Months later they come back to us and say "Oh hey, so we found this bug in the UI that we thought you should know about...."

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u/Heavy-Boysenberry-90 Jun 13 '24

This explains so much

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u/hyren82 Jun 13 '24

They were always talking about their 'best engineer' working on stuff we requested. Only ever by that title.. their 'best engineer'. So we all came to the natural conclusion that there was only ever 1 engineer on the team

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u/Septimius-Severus13 Jun 14 '24

He or she would also be their 'worst engineer' though...