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Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

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Post by klyrs »

airstrike wrote: post #109
axlee wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>That is because "best" is not just about being feature complete, it's about what is "cool", and "cool" will aways be a moving target. Exactly. Look at the fashion industry: pants are pants, shirts are shirts, and there hasn't been a major step forward since decades. Still, brands birth and die continuously, without the underlying product being any better or worse, or cheaper, than the one that comes to replace it. P…

> shirts are shirts, and there hasn't been a major step forward since decades. I'm not so sure about that... https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a20962322/balenci...

I feel both enriched, and yet diminished, by clicking on that.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

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Post by pverghese »

andrew_eit wrote: post #35

Facebook aside you really see this across the board on almost any platform, that once the product reaches it's 1.0 stage, (where it is good, does what the users want it to do, and has realised its vision) it begins a process of gradual decay, as the focus of the product managers (now panicking to find some statistics to improve to show their bosses) shifts from "building functionality" to "increasing engagement/reten…

Then the product managers are doing their job well if engagement improves

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

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Post by wayoutthere »

_jal wrote: post #88
kbenson wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We, as in the IT industry, need to come up with a culture or methodology of 'declaring a product complete' whereby all product managers are gracefully allowed to move on and a product is put into a state of stasis We live in a time when large companies will divest themselves of profitable but not growing businesses because it gets in the way of the core mission, which for large public companies is only one thing. G…

Yeah, this is the root problem. If you want to break from mandatory upgrades (this includes "cloud" stuff, where you have even less control over software), you need vendors that aren't forced to invent reasons to build them by their operational structure. This is a "Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house" situation. Not unrelatedly, I strongly support Debian and think everyone else should, too. Softwa…

That phrase has a very specific meaning rooted in racism; I would not advise using it to describe any other situation that you don’t want to bring that context into. If only to avoid misunderstandings.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

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Post by musicpulpite »

Reddit started doing this too over the summer - aggressively showing me content from other subreddits in my feed taking any interaction with the posts as proof that I should join them as well. I find it annoying too since curating a list of my favorite subreddits was always a fundamental part of using the site.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

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Post by human »

andrew_eit wrote: post #35

Facebook aside you really see this across the board on almost any platform, that once the product reaches it's 1.0 stage, (where it is good, does what the users want it to do, and has realised its vision) it begins a process of gradual decay, as the focus of the product managers (now panicking to find some statistics to improve to show their bosses) shifts from "building functionality" to "increasing engagement/reten…

I have always been baffled at how software companies start with few developpers who have this insane challenge: build an app from nothing, get traction, conquer the world. Then the company starts hiring like crazy and engineers pile on. However, it seems like the challenge is becoming less big: you should only have to maintain the code and deliver features your users ask for.

To me, it seems like the team size should actually follow more this trend:

Early: small | Growth: big | Mature: medium

As an anecdote, I just downloaded Windows 11 and it truly feels like a product invented to keep designers and engineers busy. It has a nicer UI, yes, but was it really worth the investment compared to Win 10? Probably not.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

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Post by yalogin »

Companies don't listen to complaints about functionality much. Facebook has an even bigger problem of privacy and that their platform is actively harming society. None of these matter, Zuckerberg is not trying to fix the problem. Rather he is trying to hide it from public view. The recent change to Meta is just that. They want Oculus to be face of the company and get some cover/distraction from the problem they aren't willing solve.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

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Post by user743 »

andrew_eit wrote: post #35

Facebook aside you really see this across the board on almost any platform, that once the product reaches it's 1.0 stage, (where it is good, does what the users want it to do, and has realised its vision) it begins a process of gradual decay, as the focus of the product managers (now panicking to find some statistics to improve to show their bosses) shifts from "building functionality" to "increasing engagement/reten…

Great point about declaring a product complete.

The internet is interesting in that it can bypass a lot of consumer protections that have been hard fought in government.

One that I recently saw on here was the government (not sure which level, federal I think) declaring that click to sign up, call to cancel is illegal.

There is so much user hostile behavior online it's crazy, generally speaking it seems we all need to find our way back to morals.

Hang in there with the despair.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#188

Post by Apocryphon »

freeflight wrote: post #134
datavirtue wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have always had stuff to do. This sounds like mental torture.

I consider it like white noise, having something running in the background somehow helps me better focus on what's in-front of me. In a way it's also a bit of a social substitute; When you live alone, and spend a lot of time alone, it can be nice to just listen to some human voices in the background as if you were not alone.

As a civilization we've had this for over a decade now, surely this was what radio was like before television.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

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Post by meeseeks26 »

musicpulpite wrote: post #184

Reddit started doing this too over the summer - aggressively showing me content from other subreddits in my feed taking any interaction with the posts as proof that I should join them as well. I find it annoying too since curating a list of my favorite subreddits was always a fundamental part of using the site.

that's why I use reddit clients like sync for reddit ..no recommendation bs just get the feed from subreddits I subscribed for .. imo you should try it
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