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If it just used the last 4 people I had shared a message with it would be such a massive improvement. I feel like they're trying to do something extremely soph
by ncallaway 9y ago
If it just used the last 4 people I had shared a message with it would be such a massive improvement.
I feel like they're trying to do something extremely sophisticated and it's coming out far far worse than if they were doing something extremely simple.
- bastawhiz 9y agoExactly. There are Slack channels that I share to almost every day that never show up at all. I don't know what they're doing, but it's an obvious failure.
- mgkimsal 9y agowell... "obvious" in what way? you're still sharing, right? essentially, we're still putting up with crappy systems because there's little other choice. And... if you stoped using it... what conclusion do they draw from that?
- bastawhiz 9y agoI think you misunderstand. There are ~8 "suggestions" at the top of the share box. Below them list all of the apps that can accept the content you're sharing. I never choose the suggestions because they're never relevant. I still have to use the sharing feature because there's no alternative. They should see in their telemetry "huh, nobody ever clicks on top top eight results...what's up with that?" Even just basic user testing of such a fundamental part of a project--sending data between apps--would reveal what an obvious gap this is.
- wlesieutre 9y agoWhen it comes to the allegorithmic newsfeeds I always assume it’s some metrics person saying “This one got people to stay an average of 3.4 seconds longer and view 0.8 more ads! Great work.” But maybe with all of these “smart” solutions to problems I’m attributing to malice what can be explained by incompetence and the people building them don’t even realize they’re terrible. Or maybe they do realize it’s bad but they all say “Yeah it sucks now, but once we figure out how to make it work it’s gonna be great.”
- danShumway 9y ago> I feel like they're trying to do something extremely sophisticated and it's coming out far far worse than if they were doing something extremely simple. This sums up my experience with a huge portion of the Google ecosystem. It's not just Google, of course, but Google particularly sticks out. It feels like Google really likes to be clever, and just never had anyone take them aside and explain that clever solutions are usually bad. Sometimes I wonder if that extends to their codebases as well as their products; I'd love to be a fly on the wall and hear the conversations that are leading to some of the decisions they make.
- mgkimsal 9y agoSafari's url bar is problematic like that for me - half the time when I type 'fa' (starting to type facebook) - some place I've been minimally 30 times in the last week, from that browser, it'll popup some blog (that stars with fab) I visited once initially in 2015. The only reason I've ever been back to that fab blog is because of muscle memory keystrokes hitting 'return' on safari's flawed suggestion.
- girvo 9y agoThere’s a toggle in settings to disable it or remove that site, IIRC. I had the same problem until I fixed it that way.
- mgkimsal 9y agosure, but... why on earth is it there in the first place? why, after years of not going to a website, is it suddenly becoming the first suggestion, topping sites I visit daily/hourly? much like the android stuff in the original article, it's just broken, and is a poor experience.