topic Re: Dear Spotify, PLEASE STOP auto playing stuff when I open the app. in Content Questions

topic Re: Dear Spotify, PLEASE STOP auto playing stuff when I open the app. in Content Questions https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/New-Home-Feed-Interface/m-p/5523419#M53524 Yo, Yeah I mean I can’t imagine why Spotify would deliberately create a frustrating experience like this.  Skip to the bottom if you don’t feel like reading a novel.  A commonality I’m finding as someone who is a part of a volunteer-based Spotify Community assistance program is that the lack of communication around testing new features can be frustrating for regular users who have formed habits and preferences with the app.  Ultimately, it’s a bad business decision to frustrate customers, and I’m sure that Spotify’s top leadership would wholeheartedly agree. The steps to prevent these frustrations aren’t clear, and I can’t speak on behalf of their engineers. I work at a small internet firm that builds websites for a niche industry- I am in charge of our Business Development and Partnership Programs, and am not a coder. I do know, though, that we have very clear and high expectations of our developers and those in charge of making sure our sites operate as intended. A central tenant of their job is to avoid mistakes. Mistakes cost money. I would imagine that the folks at Spotify in similar roles are astronauts. They’re going to make mistakes, but I doubt they are reckless or doing anything loosely. These are my opinions and assumptions- everyone is entitled to their own.  I know it’s probably annoying to hear flowery language about Spotify from someone who is working on their behalf to improve their product and engage with their users, but I don’t think that Spotify has malicious intent. I think they certainly make mistakes, and it’s really helpful when they’re spotted so they can be fixed. I also think that they have a responsibility to act in the best interests of their business and embrace the future of content streaming, so it is a certainty that they will never make all of their users happy. What’s cool about this community is that you actually do have a voice, and something in the vein of what you pointed out is something worth addressing.  I’ll be in touch with more information as soon as I can. Thanks, Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:49:04 GMT user-removed 2023-03-19T01:49:04Z