How is this Zuckerberg's fault? Where was the Product and Design leads on this implementation? I see everyone liking posts from them on Medium but suddenly they are absolved from changes that irk people?
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#22Copying & Pasting code is not innovation. It worked when they copied and pasted myspace but that will eventually stop working for facebook.
None of that code as copy/pasted.
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#23I guess the same thing (or other things you don't like) won't happen if IG is still an independent company.
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#24How is this Zuckerberg's fault? Where was the Product and Design leads on this implementation? I see everyone liking posts from them on Medium but suddenly they are absolved from changes that irk people?
I guess you are not familiar with the phase "The buck stops here" popularized by Harry S. Truman.
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#25This type of stuff makes me wonder when humanity will treat ads just like we treat cigarettes today.
Some are addicted to them while others don't get the point?
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#26And here I thought Instagram was an actual case of the acquirer letting the acquired product be fairly hands off.
Are there any examples of happy acquisitions? Oculus?
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#27So the point of the post is "Now the timeline order has changed. It's not a timeline anymore, but it's a filtered and reordered feed. I feel very sad about that and I want to explain you why." The why in that is "Now Instagram aims to be the brother of Facebook: a time sucking machine that has to steal the highest amount of my time to maximise the exposure of his ads. Now it’s too hard for me follow what’s happening to my friends, and I can’t do it real-time anymore.".
I don't really think it makes much sense to be so sad about this, since the whole reason Instagram did this (according to them) is that people were only seeing 30% of the images on average so it just made sense to try and present the best 30% up front (explained here http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/technology/instagram-feed....). And if like me this guy follows few enough people to keep up with all the photos, then there should be no issue because I can always easily keep up with only the people I am following and see all their output. Maybe it is not real time anymore and it is noticeable to this person, but it still seems to be overstating the case.
And how is this change relevant to try to capture most of your time? It seems moreso to be about trying to give the best experience possible, confronting a problem that most people probably friend and follow way too many people to keep up with. Seems reasonable to me... Not to mention it's very dubious to claim the call came from Facebook, and not internally from Instagram following the same direction Facebook and Twitter went over time.
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#28When you have a product you give away for free, it's always a challenge to find new and inventive ways to pay for it. Ads are one way so I don't begrudge FB for tweaking something I don't have to pay for if it means they somehow make some money on it. I like using it and find it pretty useful. I think it's just going to impact buyers of ads because they'll likely see their numbers dip as more people abandon Instagram for something else like Snapchat. Users are fickle. If you start messing with something they're used to eventually they'll just find something else to keep their A.D.D. in check.
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#29I find it strange that they don't simply allow two streams: the reordered via algorithm and the timeline. Introduce the new thing as a cool new beta product that people can try and after a certain amount of time switch it to default, but still allow the old version. Then wait until a majority switch over and cut off the old version.
Facebook "does" this and I put "does" in quotation marks because even when I change the newsfeed sort order to "Most Recent" I still see posts I've already seen from hours ago jumbled in with things happening more recently, and if I leave the page and come back, or merely hit the refresh button I'm back to "Most Popular".
Combine that with the ever annoying problem of leaving the page, suddenly seeing something interesting, hitting the back button and being presented with an entirely different order of sorting news items forcing me to go digging through my friend's timeline on their actual page ....
I guess what I'm saying is I don't trust them to not fuck up two streams on Instagram the same way they've done it on FB: to the point of being completely useless as a dichotomy.
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#30Just stop using the app; lots of people I know have already stopped using Facebook. I don't even have it installed on my phone anymore.
At least on iPhone, the web app is less resource-hoggy and just as featureful.
Most of the social events I go to are now typically organized via Facebook; the non-FB people require a separate email which is an extra step that is not taken 100% of the time.