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I'm a little confused. I created an account just for kicks and it immediately said there were 58,912 people ahead of me and 2,877 behind me. This means that 2,8
by danudey 6y ago
I'm a little confused. I created an account just for kicks and it immediately said there were 58,912 people ahead of me and 2,877 behind me. This means that 2,877 people signed up for the service in the time between my account being created and the page rendering?
But the number hasn't gone up at all, so me and the other 2,877 people were I guess part of a huge surge of signups all within the same 100ms or so, and no one else has signed up since?
This is quite confusing, and does not encourage trust.
- tjs8rj 6y agoSorry, could certainly clarify this better. Everyone who hasn't completed any actions falls into the same batch. Providing feedback or referring moves you to the next batch. In other words, those 2,877 people are others who signed up and didn't complete any further actions, and are all in the same batch for access. Hope this makes more sense.
- bostik 6y agoI would be careful when playing around with a viral queue mechanism. You need to be very clear (even if only for yourself) with your own incentives why you're using the strategy. It can work well if you're filtering for high-quality signal in your own feedback loop. But it can also backfire badly if the intention is to generate hype amplification.
- bequanna 6y agoI get the exact same ahead/behind values and based on your post time, I'm ~10 mins behind you. I would guess these numbers are meaningless and only exist to motivate you to click the 'Bump me up in the queue' button and complete a survey.