As you saw on the livestream earlier on this week, it was a big relief to be able to share the news that we’re fixing and indeed updating MCC. I was traveling this week and out of the office while the livestream was happening, but if you remember, a couple of years ago I promised to explain what the underlying issues with MCC were. Well here it is, sort of. I’m obviously not an engineer, so apologies to the deeply technical for keeping this at a level I understand.
I’d also like to be clear, up front about what’s not contained here – there’s no excuses. We’re explaining some of the issues in more depth than we have before, in part because we now have the resources, OS and capability to make meaningful changes. So please don’t mistake explanations for excuses – we’re trying to be as transparent as possible, but there are loads of proprietary things we can’t talk about at a granular level.
We will, however, have kind of a second half of this post when the update is released, where we can go through the causes of items that were fixed by the new update, rather than jinx them right now.
There’s also no guarantees in here, beyond my guarantee that we care about this very much and are throwing our best people and best efforts into this project.