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> The HN response here is a pretty good demo with regards to why large scale companies have a hard time trying out new things, IMO. And why smaller companies ar
by kodablah 5y ago
> The HN response here is a pretty good demo with regards to why large scale companies have a hard time trying out new things, IMO. And why smaller companies are able to bubble to the top on occasion.
I think your type of response may also indicate why. Some commenters and large companies' sensitivities are too high to accept/provide genuine feedback and therefore have a hard time trying new things. Other commenters and smaller companies aren't so sensitive and build/react accordingly.
- yupper32 5y agoMaybe, but at the same time, often when changes happen to a product at a large company, a large amount of the public gets pissed. It's often not "hey we have some feedback", it's "hey we're going to go shoot up your HQ if you don't change xyz back to the way it was". You've seen people's reactions to stuff like Reddit/Facebook/Youtube redesigns, right? It's wild. And those are relatively small things. So I feel like the "sensitivities" you're talking about are a bit imbalanced here between users of a large company and the large company.
- thefunnyman 5y agoWhile your overall point remains, the Reddit redesign has been so user hostile, especially on mobile, that it’s a pretty poor example. Any major changes are indeed fundamentally more difficult to make at the scales these companies operate at simply because they impacted orders of magnitude more users.