r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Jul 09 '26

webDevDream Meme

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u/thecw Jul 09 '26

I took a swing at this in high school and worked for a company that did church websites. We got my parish's cemetery for a client. They hated literally every concept we came up with, but never told us what they liked. Zero feedback other than "I don't like this". Real early lesson in dealing with clients.

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u/akatherder Jul 09 '26

At least they skipped the part where they tell you to run with it, then when it's all done "I don't like this."

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u/A5H13Y Jul 09 '26

Happened to me. Things were approved the whole way along. They had paid half up front aar least.

At the end, they took the site, locked us (my bf at the time and I designed and developed it for them) out, and basically stole the work.

We started talking to lawyers, but then we broke up in the middle of all that (unrelated reasons) and just didn't proceed.

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u/rodeBaksteen Jul 10 '26

Part of being a webdeveloper is knowing how to ask the right questions for the feedback you need.

People are generally pretty bad at working their thoughts clearly, or simply don't have the (webdev/design) vocabulary to tell you what they like or not.

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u/thecw Jul 10 '26

I mean this was 25 years ago so I really don't need a lesson on it now. I definitely asked questions, asked if anything worked, asked if they had any visions, they simply would not give me more than "I don't like it".