Enshittification: A modern term coined by author Cory Doctorow to describe how digital platforms and big businesses deliberately make their products and services worse over time to maximize profits.

When my brother first said it I thought he was kidding me. Could have been used for a while but it is the first I heard of it.

It's a term (and a trend) that has been around for a while now. I first encountered it a couple decades back.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
It's a term (and a trend) that has been around for a while now. I first encountered it a couple decades back.

Boy oh boy, I'm way behind on the times.

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Originally posted by rtquig:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
It's a term (and a trend) that has been around for a while now. I first encountered it a couple decades back.

Boy oh boy, I'm way behind on the times.

I had never heard of it before you posted, so you are not alone.

^^^ Me neither.

Well now...isn't that the shits!

I work in I.T. and I've been using it more and more. I first heard of it about 6 months ago.

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Originally posted by DrDan:

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Originally posted by rtquig:

Boy oh boy, I'm way behind on the times.

I had never heard of it before you posted, so you are not alone.

I too, have been living under a rock. Just today, I learned about the eggplant emoji.

Its a new and improved word for an old and awful practice.

I had not heard the term either but it fills a descriptive void for half the world we live in.

Shit! Never heard of it, either.

It's the Peter Principle as applied to systems rather than individuals.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Just today, I learned about the eggplant emoji.

[sarcasm]Nice of you to clue the rest of us in.[/sarcasm]

BTW, "enshitification" has been around a long time, at least 20 years in the tech community. It originally meant something more like software rot rather than intentionally facilitating product decay. But it seems to have been eagerly adopted (the strategy, not the term) to encourage sales of newer "improved" products.

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Originally posted by architect:

[sarcasm]Nice of you to clue the rest of us in.[/sarcasm]

I did not intend to clue anybody in. In keeping with the theme of this thread, things that I had not heard of, I mentioned that I might have been living under a rock, never having heard about the emoji I referred to.

A humorous explanation of the concept here:

I think I've seen it used on this forum, in the not too distant past