I probably should’ve spent more time making my point — sorry. The Reddit exodus led to a handful of new Lemmy apps and it was interesting to watch as they all came together so quickly, hoping to be the next Apollo. I was surprised by how fickle my own loyalty to Memmy was when I found an app (Voyager) that looked and worked very similarly, but also seemed to perfectly solve my specific pain point. I was a Memmy user as soon as it popped up and was psyched for its future. What I was thinking when I wrote my original comment is that I actually would’ve preferred no “hide all seen” feature at all, and not in any kind of entitled way (I don’t think, anyway?)

I don’t really see the entitlement here, but I’m sorry nonetheless for the attitude in my comment. I was speaking as a developer and designer myself, but I know the memmy people have no reason to work on any part of the app they don’t want to. I was trying (and failed, miserably) to explain why I left for such a seemingly petty reason. I simply found an alternative. From the perspective of a user, their focus on “new” instead of fixing bugs first was frustrating. That’s not entitlement. I didn’t insist anyone fix it. I saw that the team’s priorities weren’t in line with what I’d assumed they should be. I guess my dogmatic “user centric” approach can read as entitlement, but I’m fully aware I wasn’t owed anything as a user of a free app.