> Shortly after we published this story with that comment, Fischel confirmed Microsoft has pulled the plug on this particular idea. “The experience is no longer flighting.” Sure enough, I no longer see it.
But "flighting"? Does that mean "deployed"? I've never heard that before -- I'm guessing a weird variation of "in flight" which itself is an unusual metaphor? Is that something people are saying now?
If that was the original definition from whoever introduced it to the company, it’s long been forgotten.
New English mod where one says "need to action this" I guess leads to "flighting"... because reasons.
(To be fair, Mozilla has done the same shit in the past when they went adware: https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish... --- I'd look for the HN article discussing it and link that here too, but ironically Google is also refusing to find it.)
It’s something that’s being tried out to gauge effectiveness.
It’s also an excuse to dismiss something as insignificant. Oh that thing? We were just flightning it, it hardly counts.