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That article is shared to 'Public': it should be visible to non-logged-in users. Not sure what changed — could be an issue with excessive crawlers… I’ve very c

by bertil 10y ago

That article is shared to 'Public': it should be visible to non-logged-in users. Not sure what changed — could be an issue with excessive crawlers… I’ve very convinced that Facebook is very comfortable to let the minority who are not comfortable having an account read a public post -- especially when it’s about engineering. Those are usually on the company blog (without log-in block); Carmack probably was just using internal tool, and didn’t want to bother. It’s probably less high on the priority list than “give affordable internet access to 1 billion people”, but in an ideal world, posts that are meant for “everyone” should not be gated.

swang 10y ago
i can read it logged out of facebook unfortunately there is an annoying box covering up 1/3 of the page asking you to login or signup. it does not "block" any content in that you can still read all of it. but it is highly annoying (and i assume purposely so).
- cowsandmilk 10y ago
  The main question is why Carmack doesn't use the Facebook Engineering Blog. There are no popups or other annoyances there. For example: https://code.facebook.com/posts/265413023819735/surround-360-is-now-open-source/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/265413023819735/surround-360...
  - bertil 10y ago
    Facebook employees generally communicate internal results or opinion with Facebook posts, a lot like this, using a Company-only privacy setting. Posts like this one sound like something he posted internally first, and just reposted, or changed the privacy setting. I wouldn’t read any more into it than marginal laziness.
intoverflow2 10y ago
>Not sure what changed Metrics driven design and development. 1) team gets told it has to increase sign ups 2) Product already too popular to go anywhere meaningful with it's content/features 3) Only hope left is to make the experience worse for non-users in the hope to irritate them into being users. > It’s probably less high on the priority list than “give affordable internet access to 1 billion people”, Both this awful login form and the cynical project to get the 3rd world online via Facebook are part of the same goal.

by bertil 10y ago

swang 10y ago

i can read it logged out of facebook unfortunately there is an annoying box covering up 1/3 of the page asking you to login or signup. it does not "block" any content in that you can still read all of it. but it is highly annoying (and i assume purposely so).

cowsandmilk 10y ago
The main question is why Carmack doesn't use the Facebook Engineering Blog. There are no popups or other annoyances there. For example: https://code.facebook.com/posts/265413023819735/surround-360-is-now-open-source/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/265413023819735/surround-360...
- bertil 10y ago
  Facebook employees generally communicate internal results or opinion with Facebook posts, a lot like this, using a Company-only privacy setting. Posts like this one sound like something he posted internally first, and just reposted, or changed the privacy setting. I wouldn’t read any more into it than marginal laziness.

intoverflow2 10y ago

>Not sure what changed Metrics driven design and development. 1) team gets told it has to increase sign ups 2) Product already too popular to go anywhere meaningful with it's content/features 3) Only hope left is to make the experience worse for non-users in the hope to irritate them into being users. > It’s probably less high on the priority list than “give affordable internet access to 1 billion people”, Both this awful login form and the cynical project to get the 3rd world online via Facebook are part of the same goal.