Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
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Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
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Re: Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
#2It's neat that you figured this out but it also "irks" me a little that you showed users how to go around their system to unlock this "beta feature" before it was released. What if they were doing some A/B testing and now, by revealing how to get around this, you may skew there data or results. I realize that if it was super sensitive A/B or beta testing they could easily change it on their end to make it not able to "get around", but again, it just slightly "irks" me. Haha
Re: Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
#3Seems to be a very popular topic. Sorry that page isn't laoding right now. We're working on it...
Re: Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
#4It's neat that you figured this out but it also "irks" me a little that you showed users how to go around their system to unlock this "beta feature" before it was released. What if they were doing some A/B testing and now, by revealing how to get around this, you may skew there data or results. I realize that if it was super sensitive A/B or beta testing they could easily change it on their end to make it not able to…
The correct spelling is 'irk'.
Re: Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
#5It's neat that you figured this out but it also "irks" me a little that you showed users how to go around their system to unlock this "beta feature" before it was released. What if they were doing some A/B testing and now, by revealing how to get around this, you may skew there data or results. I realize that if it was super sensitive A/B or beta testing they could easily change it on their end to make it not able to…
The correct spelling is 'irk'.
fixed - Cheers! ;) Haha
Re: Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
#6Seems to be a very popular topic. Sorry that page isn't laoding right now. We're working on it...
Should be back up now
Re: Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
#7I don't like the tone of the article. It implies that Pinterest is withholding this vital feature, just to spite users, and this pin league site is freeing us from their tyranny. I find it much more likely that Pinterest is simply testing the feature and wants to make sure it performs properly before releasing it to the masses.
EDIT: spelling.
Re: Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
#8I don't like the tone of the article. It implies that Pinterest is withholding this vital feature, just to spite users, and this pin league site is freeing us from their tyranny. I find it much more likely that Pinterest is simply testing the feature and wants to make sure it performs properly before releasing it to the masses. EDIT: spelling.
You're right about the tone- I didn't mean it to come off that way, but I guess it did. I'm sure Pinterest isn't doing it to spite users.. and I agree they are likely testing the feature.. or more likely preparing to start testing it. I tried it out myself to make sure it worked, and given that it's been one of the highly anticipated features I just thought, hey.. why not- let's give people what they want.
Re: Hidden "Block" Feature Discovered on Pinterest
#9It's neat that you figured this out but it also "irks" me a little that you showed users how to go around their system to unlock this "beta feature" before it was released. What if they were doing some A/B testing and now, by revealing how to get around this, you may skew there data or results. I realize that if it was super sensitive A/B or beta testing they could easily change it on their end to make it not able to…
Thanks for the comment. I totally hear you - it irked me a bit too at first, but ultimately I thought to myself - the feature was out in their production environment already, and the chances of this really actually having any effect on Pinterest were pretty slim to none. If I'm wrong, then perhaps they have bigger problems.
Think about how much more valuable this test data would be though.. if you have people using this heavily despite the fact that they have to go through this whole process every time they want to block someone, I think that would say a lot about how important and needed this feature really is.
For what's probably a really small percentage of the Pinterest user base that actually has the patience and skill to use it, they probably really need this feature. Otherwise, I expect most people to pretty much just say, "Oh, cool", and let it be a neat "easter-egg" type of thing.
Anyway, I totally get where you're coming from, and agree with you that it's probably not that big of a deal :)