Should apps have a “solo” mode for people who don't collaborate?
And if so, what would this solo mode do differently that would be particularly helpful for people who work alone?
Shouldn’t the app itself dictate if it is collaborative or solo? We shouldn’t be slamming in collaborative because “everything is networked”, and shouldn’t be tacking on “solo” to a collaborative app.
I mean a “solo” version of slack makes no sense.
Likewise a “collaborative” version of minesweeper also makes no sense.
That's usually the "free" tier for apps. It's becoming common for products to offer collaboration as a paid premium feature.
I have no idea what that would look like specifically. I can see some collaboration features being omitted, but nothing that would be different.
A program that I consider to be "good" would not try to address such a specific use case.
[Insert paragraph about emacs, vim and unix philosophy here]
If I'm not collaborating why would I want to use an app designed primarily for collaboration?