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Because some people love to be contrarian/complain. Some people love being armchair experts on things. It's the same thing every time some major website redesi
by potatolicious 11y ago
Because some people love to be contrarian/complain. Some people love being armchair experts on things.
It's the same thing every time some major website redesigns some feature - lots of consternation about how the new thing is so much worse and how this will spell the end of the website as we know it. Petitions to revert the change will be made, chain emails will be sent, the whole works.
And then a week later nobody remembers this even happened, and the website's numbers stay exactly where they are/go up.
Canonical example of this in my mind is Facebook. More recently when Twitter made "faves" into "hearts" - many a thinkpiece was written on Medium about this.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoYes, but by this logic, people will complain when you finally tell them, too.
- kaishiro 11y agoI think the point is that by doing this you're undercutting the validity of the complaint. It feels more transparent that someone is complaining about the change after it having been explained to them when they clearly haven't noticed it in the preceding months.