> It will use the Discovery+ software (which is presumably better because HBO Max is terrible)
i know the new leadership claims Discover's tech is better, but i wonder if that is true. i wonder if it is PR-speak for creating some picture of reciprocity ("yes, HBO has content-- but discovery is bringing something to the party too!)."
i know the HBO Max app gets a lot of well-deserved flack. still, i imagine the underlining infrastructure is much more robust than anything discovery deals with in terms of load, scale, and internationalization.
dropping a new episode of House of Dragon tonight, or the new Wonder Woman movie in 4k HDR/etc. at a specific time must require far more interesting tech than whatever usage patterns the latest episode of 90 Day Fiancee necessitates.
Well, Today, HBO Max has a bug where every time you go to the site, it pretends you're logged out. You click login, and it logs you in without having to put in any credentials (so it knew you were logged in). Then, when you click a show, you have to tell it which profile you're using (which it also already knew, because it was showing you lists customized for the profile), and then it returns you to the home screen where you must go find the same show again.
This has been going on for a couple weeks. It's not stopping me from watching, but it is an obvious bug that should have been caught by any testing at all, and should be a P0 fix this tomorrow production bug.
I'm glad they did eventually fix the last bug: It was impossible to select a profile and start watching unless you resized the browser window down to half size. I can't imagine how they accomplished that one!
> dropping a new episode of House of Dragon tonight ... at a specific time must require far more interesting tech than whatever usage patterns the latest episode of 90 Day Fiancee necessitates.
i know the new leadership claims Discover's tech is better, but i wonder if that is true. i wonder if it is PR-speak for creating some picture of reciprocity ("yes, HBO has content-- but discovery is bringing something to the party too!)."
i know the HBO Max app gets a lot of well-deserved flack. still, i imagine the underlining infrastructure is much more robust than anything discovery deals with in terms of load, scale, and internationalization.
dropping a new episode of House of Dragon tonight, or the new Wonder Woman movie in 4k HDR/etc. at a specific time must require far more interesting tech than whatever usage patterns the latest episode of 90 Day Fiancee necessitates.