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Wow. That is shocking. Has Pinterest even reached product/market fit?

aaronblohowiak 9y ago
people i know are using it less because of how buggy/slow it has gotten and how hard the basic activity of curating your boards has become. i also now avoid clicking anything related to pinterest because they break the web and make it hard to visit the source website and view their site on mobile. Too many walls around that garden.
- bspn 9y ago
  I once clicked on a recipe that was pinned to a Pinterest board and it would not allow me to view it without registering for an account. They lost my eyeballs forever that day and I'm sure there's many others like me out there. Given their target revenue model was presumably ad/affiliate referral based, keeping potential consumers outside the wall made zero sense to me.
  - timthelion 9y ago
    I'd pay money to never see pinterest appear in another image search result again.
    - bsmith89 9y ago
      Search Google Images with "-site:pinterest.com" You could even set a custom search engine keyword that searches Google Images with the above included automatically.
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  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    Same for me. I think this might be the actual reason they're losing out. The moment they started requiring to log in to view stuff discovered through Google anyway was the moment I stopped using them, even though I actually have an account.
- colordrops 9y ago
  The funny thing is that you are obviously right about their problems and despite the fact that an anonymous stranger on a forum can easily answer this, the billion dollar machine won't change to save its life.
  - mrarjen 9y ago
    Exactly, been thinking this for years now. It's scary how fast a company can grow too big to actually do anything remotely new or change a small thing to save itself. Same actually how SpaceX came to be, stop tossing away perfectly fine rockets.
- deepGem 9y ago
  I am one of those guys. I don't really understand the value of pinterest. So a drop in performance made my exit far easier. I am probably not their target user.

people i know are using it less because of how buggy/slow it has gotten and how hard the basic activity of curating your boards has become. i also now avoid clicking anything related to pinterest because they break the web and make it hard to visit the source website and view their site on mobile. Too many walls around that garden.

bspn 9y ago
I once clicked on a recipe that was pinned to a Pinterest board and it would not allow me to view it without registering for an account. They lost my eyeballs forever that day and I'm sure there's many others like me out there. Given their target revenue model was presumably ad/affiliate referral based, keeping potential consumers outside the wall made zero sense to me.
- timthelion 9y ago
  I'd pay money to never see pinterest appear in another image search result again.
  - bsmith89 9y ago
    Search Google Images with "-site:pinterest.com" You could even set a custom search engine keyword that searches Google Images with the above included automatically.
    - deleted 9y ago
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- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Same for me. I think this might be the actual reason they're losing out. The moment they started requiring to log in to view stuff discovered through Google anyway was the moment I stopped using them, even though I actually have an account.
colordrops 9y ago
The funny thing is that you are obviously right about their problems and despite the fact that an anonymous stranger on a forum can easily answer this, the billion dollar machine won't change to save its life.
- mrarjen 9y ago
  Exactly, been thinking this for years now. It's scary how fast a company can grow too big to actually do anything remotely new or change a small thing to save itself. Same actually how SpaceX came to be, stop tossing away perfectly fine rockets.
deepGem 9y ago
I am one of those guys. I don't really understand the value of pinterest. So a drop in performance made my exit far easier. I am probably not their target user.