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Our internal studies showed that gaslighting users by showing them a completely new interface once in a while and then switching back to the old one the next ti
by bassman9000 6y ago
Our internal studies showed that gaslighting users by showing them a completely new interface once in a while and then switching back to the old one the next time they loaded a page increases user engagement, so we made sure to implement such a system based on a Medium article we found that had something to do with multi-armed bandits.
Some darkness here.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoHoly shit, that just hit home hard... I just pitched doing multi-armed bandits for ad placement.
- saagarjha 6y agoJust letting out some pent-up frustration about $MESSAGING_APP that was running this kind of A/B tests in their TestFlight builds where I'd get a different UI at each launch (I know I opted in to the bleeding edge, but could you at least make it consistent?) $SEARCH_ENGINE keeps changing fonts and spacing on me too, which is less jarring but somehow more annoying because it instantly feels "off" to me.