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Isn't it kind of absurd that this is news? On one hand, I totally get it that a multibillion dollar company is altering one of the defining aspects of its user
by acjohnson55 11y ago
Isn't it kind of absurd that this is news?
On one hand, I totally get it that a multibillion dollar company is altering one of the defining aspects of its user experience, and that's a really big deal. But if you erase that context, it's also a little ridiculous.
My mind is also drawn to making a parallel with struggling Twitter, where you have "essays" composed of indexed sequences of 1-2 sentence thoughts and where people resort to taking screenshots to make quotations of other content. At some point, you have to wonder if the medium is still serving the content as well as it could. Will they be bold/risky enough to break out of their arbitrary constraints?
- CardenB 11y agoJust like you said, a multibillion dollar company is changing a defining feature. Does that not seem newsworthy?
- acjohnson55 11y agoIt does, and I feel I acknowledged that. I just wonder if it says something about our economy as a whole that something so trivial could be so important. I'm a huge fan of the progression toward simplification, represented by Instagram, Twitter, etc. over the incumbents they displaced. I just think the missing piece is how to also provide basic adaptability without sacrificing that core of simplicity.