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In older versions of our client, you could click on a portion of our logo five times to get a small pop up image of our programming staff. It was an easter egg,

In older versions of our client, you could click on a portion of our logo five times to get a small pop up image of our programming staff. It was an easter egg, and cost next to nothing to implement. I hope they change their minds someday.

freehunter 8y ago
With Microsoft's track record on security and bug issues, I really hope they don't change their minds. They should write exactly as much code as required and not one line more.
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- admax88q 8y ago
  > They should write exactly as much code as required and not one line more. They already clearly don't do that.
lolsal 8y ago
I think client easter eggs are different from OS easter eggs. > the OS division has a "no Easter Eggs" policy.
rixrax 8y ago
I like how Adobe Lightroom [classic] displays names of dev and QA (and other?) team members in a splash screen on startup. Apparently at least Photoshop does the same[0]. I've always thought this is a nice way of giving little kudos to people behind SW. It works the other way too - a long time a go I was brought into a particularly challenged SW project (e.g. when we still shipped desktop apps with splash screens), and among other things, I put forward a proposal that we will do exactly the same: let the whole world see who is behind the code. Unsurprisingly, motion was shot down, but I think the mere thought that we might still do it made everyone contribute better code. Maybe. Maybe not. [0] https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/heroes-of-photoshop/ https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/heroes-of-photoshop/
- Theodores 8y ago
  Since Photoshop 1.0 they have always had team credits, much like how TV shows have credits, not as a hidden Easter Egg. This set the precedent and that probably can't be changed now with upsetting people. Maybe that is the trick, get in on version 1 with non hidden credits. There was a move a few years ago to create humans.txt files for websites. This idea died but essentially it was an effort to accommodate credits into web design. Personally I would like to see cats.txt as an Easter Egg feature.

freehunter 8y ago

With Microsoft's track record on security and bug issues, I really hope they don't change their minds. They should write exactly as much code as required and not one line more.

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admax88q 8y ago
> They should write exactly as much code as required and not one line more. They already clearly don't do that.

lolsal 8y ago

I think client easter eggs are different from OS easter eggs. > the OS division has a "no Easter Eggs" policy.

rixrax 8y ago

I like how Adobe Lightroom [classic] displays names of dev and QA (and other?) team members in a splash screen on startup. Apparently at least Photoshop does the same[0]. I've always thought this is a nice way of giving little kudos to people behind SW. It works the other way too - a long time a go I was brought into a particularly challenged SW project (e.g. when we still shipped desktop apps with splash screens), and among other things, I put forward a proposal that we will do exactly the same: let the whole world see who is behind the code. Unsurprisingly, motion was shot down, but I think the mere thought that we might still do it made everyone contribute better code. Maybe. Maybe not. [0] https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/heroes-of-photoshop/ https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/heroes-of-photoshop/

Theodores 8y ago
Since Photoshop 1.0 they have always had team credits, much like how TV shows have credits, not as a hidden Easter Egg. This set the precedent and that probably can't be changed now with upsetting people. Maybe that is the trick, get in on version 1 with non hidden credits. There was a move a few years ago to create humans.txt files for websites. This idea died but essentially it was an effort to accommodate credits into web design. Personally I would like to see cats.txt as an Easter Egg feature.