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As a digital nomad, this "dark pattern" has proved very useful for me a lot of times. It is a worse experience to check a place and when you look again it is no

As a digital nomad, this "dark pattern" has proved very useful for me a lot of times. It is a worse experience to check a place and when you look again it is not available anymore.

nemothekid 9y ago
>It is a worse experience to check a place and when you look again it is not available anymore. I'm not sure that's what the GP cares about - it's a dark pattern because I don't think any of those statements are true. Sure they are unverifiable, but I wouldn't be surprised if you book a room, open a incognito widow, and find the same hotel again with the same number of rooms available. Or if you try to book a room 1000 years in the future, and you'd also find that "there are only 3 spots available".
- rixed 9y ago
  Technically, all are true. Sometime the formulation is quite counter intuitive though. The best known exemple is probably the "there is only one room left" message for single room apartments. This has been considered a bug for years. The thing is: any change to the web site, however small, including fixing a bug, must prove conversion-successful in an experiment before going in production. This is both great and dramatic, as you can imagine: great that anyone can change anything as soon as proven successful, but dramatic that often you feel entrenched in local minima. This experiment driven culture is great for the business though. So far. Disclaimer: worked there for a bit.