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You've explained where Facebook's likely interest lies, but not why that feature is actually popular. I don't see any difference with how HN and Reddit attract
by class4behavior 8y ago
You've explained where Facebook's likely interest lies, but not why that feature is actually popular.
I don't see any difference with how HN and Reddit attract people. They all seek the added social aspect to reading news; and Facebook is just what people know.
>Apologies for being cynical, but I'm not surprised.
Luckily cynicism doesn't equal realism. FF devs often make data-driven decisions, and none of the devs showed interest fixing all the accumulated bugs. So they left this to matter to add-ons, the big button was eventually stored away and the one in the address bar abandoned for Pocket.
No sneaky marketing strategies involved.
- Techonomicon 8y agoReddit and hn are quite different in the sense that HN actively (allegedly) attempts to fight against clickbait / mislabeled titles where resdit (in general) leaves that up to the subreddits to manage which (in general) do nothing.
- class4behavior 8y agoIndeed, but it's the same concept, just different target groups.
- xg15 8y agoWhat was the data-driven decision in that case? You mean they looked at plugin usage stats and realized Pocket had more usage than the built-in RSS feature?
- class4behavior 8y ago>What was the data-driven decision in that case? That based on telemetry data the RSS feature was barely used in general. I haven't seen any commentary that suggests any relation with their support for Pocket.
- shock 8y agoIs it surprising people don't use a feature they don't know exists? This is a catch-22 problem. I would very much like to see a banner at the bottom of the new tab page introducing RSS and how it can be used, similarly to how Mozilla did for Firefox Sync.