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What about Facebooks 2006 redesign (although to consider this case study, we have to put aside the HN cultural disdain of FB and look at the situation clinicall

by gretch 6y ago

What about Facebooks 2006 redesign (although to consider this case study, we have to put aside the HN cultural disdain of FB and look at the situation clinically) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/facebooks-news-feed-is-10-years-old-this-is-how-the-site-has-changed https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/facebooks-news-feed-i... Lots of people hated it can claimed in the moment that corporate ruined everything. Then it went on to become one of the most successful products of all time. Even if you hate FB today, you have to recognize that FB was beloved between 2007 ~ 2011 by pretty much everyone. How was anyone to know, in that moment, whether the G+ name thing would be a major flop or a world changing product?

ZephyrBlu 6y ago
In my opinion, launching a badly received v1 of a new product/feature is not the same as attempting to forcibly change or go against the culture of your platform. A quote from Zuckerberg's post regarding the News Feed is: "This is information people used to dig for on a daily basis, nicely re-organized and summarized so people can learn about the people they care about." This does not sound like they were trying to push back against users, whereas Google basically said "no, you do it our way".