That's a management decision. If nobody told them to make new features, engineers were probably working on site reliability shit and just keeping the teetering mass of the fourth-most-popular website from falling over. Big systems are really hard, e.g., and they're always growing. Dan Luu probably has written other relevant stuff
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it's not like twitter is constantly rolling out new features
That's a management decision. If nobody told them to make new features, engineers were probably working on site reliability shit and just keeping the teetering mass of the fourth-most-popular website from falling over. Big systems are really hard, e.g., and they're always growing. Dan Luu probably has written other relevant stuff
probably some to do with analyzing data, doing backend shit, and selling fun data to customers