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> (everyone is working hard on a raft of different things and can't just react overnight to community needs) This attitude is interesting to me. Why not? It ca
by danilocampos 15y ago
> (everyone is working hard on a raft of different things and can't just react overnight to community needs)
This attitude is interesting to me. Why not? It can't be because of scale, can it? New users are being throttled.
Isn't responding quickly, perhaps overnight or even within a few days, exactly what you need to make this nascent product work well?
Such sluggishness is interesting, and instructive of the perils in getting big, even when being a startup is somewhere in the DNA. But I wonder what opportunities it creates, and for whom. Like an airline fare war, I wonder if Facebook might decide that rapid evolution was worth the short term cost to make Google hurt. Of course, Facebook is bulky itself these days, too.
- Matt_Cutts 15y agoI don't think that Google is especially slow in this area (e.g. they've been very responsive when mega-posts by very popular people were causing a bunch of noise). Instead, I think it's because Google is trying to do a bunch of different things that need engineering cycles. When Google+ launched, people wanted first-class integration with Google Apps. People has also been clamoring for business/entity pages, not just personal pages. Those are both important and will take some time. There's just a lot to do, even for a service that's only a few weeks old.