User retention at Pinterest: tackling an ambiguous problem

Post by ncarroll » Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 6:52 AM UTC

m0rose wrote: post #26

Jaruzel wrote: post #9

> When I joined the growth team at Pinterest There it is, right there. 'Growth team' - a team dedicated to using every dirty trick in the book to retain users. Facebook has one too, and that team was responsible for all the shady cross-app data sharing on peoples phones. Instead of treating your users as 'assets' simply to be owned and controlled, why not actually ask them about their experience of using your service…

I like Pinterest. I'm bad at decorating, and I'm a bad cook, so having recipes and decorating stuff that I can sift through and save into distinct idea books is nice. However, the website/app is basically glorified bookmarks. Trying to turn this into a Social Networking Empire is just pure greed, and I agree with you: the "Growth Team" concept is wretched. Sure, it's an interesting problem from a CompSci perspective,…

I really enjoy using are.na (https://www.are.na/about) for collecting images and random bits of text into spaces where I can view them together. It's a small, creative community and definitely not of the repost, repost, repost quality that you find at Pinterest. It is run by a small team and they offer a very useful free plan for getting started and membership is only $45/year.

I am not affiliated are.na. I am just a happy user.

Post by velcrovan » Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 7:34 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #20

velcrovan wrote: post #19

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Not only is it forced registration, it's unusable without a fuckin BROWSER EXTENSION that can watch all of your traffic to any site. HELL no.

What do you mean by this? (honest question, I dont use pinterest so this sounds weird)

Basically, even if you have an account, logging in to the site isn't enough. You can’t really save items or do anything without using Pinterest’s browser extension and doing everything through there. And this browser extension (like most browser extensions in general) can see the address and contents of every page you visit on the web, regardless of VPNs or incognito mode or HTTPs or anything like that, because it’s code that’s now built into the browser itself (which can also see all those things because that's its function).

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