<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mfer</author><text>You deserve an award for best &amp;quot;Get Off My Lawn&amp;quot; post of the day. Thank you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>s9w</author><text>Software getting worse, just out of my head:&lt;p&gt;- VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler)&lt;p&gt;- Firefox &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; extension API still means you can&amp;#x27;t remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks&lt;p&gt;- Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And now started showing a glowing red &amp;quot;error&amp;quot; because I &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; have a Pro account and no business account (when using 0,4% of my storage). Also they still have no way of ignoring folders.&lt;p&gt;- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware just jumped the shark two (?) years ago with its redesign. It was so good back then&lt;p&gt;- Skype is being almost completely unusable. Still popular because of the name unfortunately&lt;p&gt;- Imgur is a joke and became what it was literally founded to avoid&lt;p&gt;- The new Reddit layout is borderline unusable. They will lose the rest of the core users when they disable the old. subdomain&lt;p&gt;- Teamviewer. How is it possible that such an program is not backwards compatible between versions? Everytime I want to use it it&amp;#x27;s a dance to quickly delete&amp;#x2F;find&amp;#x2F;install a version that the other side has&lt;p&gt;- I don&amp;#x27;t understand how the &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; Windows start menu works they introduced in Win 8 I think. Luckily everyone I know uses classicshell&lt;p&gt;- Phones have gotten almost to the point of being unusable. The latency, audio quality, skipping and hearing your own voice made me avoid phone conversations for years now. Even landlines are all digital and horribly compressed. Humanity had that one nailed in the 60s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Updates</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2224/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Neil44</author><text>The TeamViewer thing will be deliberate, because they’ve sold a load of perpetual licenses for older versions so incompatibility is how they get more money out of you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>s9w</author><text>Software getting worse, just out of my head:&lt;p&gt;- VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler)&lt;p&gt;- Firefox &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; extension API still means you can&amp;#x27;t remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks&lt;p&gt;- Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And now started showing a glowing red &amp;quot;error&amp;quot; because I &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; have a Pro account and no business account (when using 0,4% of my storage). Also they still have no way of ignoring folders.&lt;p&gt;- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware just jumped the shark two (?) years ago with its redesign. It was so good back then&lt;p&gt;- Skype is being almost completely unusable. Still popular because of the name unfortunately&lt;p&gt;- Imgur is a joke and became what it was literally founded to avoid&lt;p&gt;- The new Reddit layout is borderline unusable. They will lose the rest of the core users when they disable the old. subdomain&lt;p&gt;- Teamviewer. How is it possible that such an program is not backwards compatible between versions? Everytime I want to use it it&amp;#x27;s a dance to quickly delete&amp;#x2F;find&amp;#x2F;install a version that the other side has&lt;p&gt;- I don&amp;#x27;t understand how the &amp;quot;modern&amp;quot; Windows start menu works they introduced in Win 8 I think. Luckily everyone I know uses classicshell&lt;p&gt;- Phones have gotten almost to the point of being unusable. The latency, audio quality, skipping and hearing your own voice made me avoid phone conversations for years now. Even landlines are all digital and horribly compressed. Humanity had that one nailed in the 60s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Updates</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2224/</url></story>