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5% of a billion monthly users is more then enough justification. At Google's scale fractions of a percent are often worth it.
by abraham 15y ago
5% of a billion monthly users is more then enough justification. At Google's scale fractions of a percent are often worth it.
- chalst 15y agoThat's 100% of the same user base who have to deal with a more complex user interface with more usability snafus and one that evolves less well. If you make a couple of dozen such UI changes based on similarly narrow evidence of improvement, you will end up with a mess.
- abraham 15y agoIt isn't 100% of the user base. I would guess the majority of users don't care/use/know about page caches so overall it is a simpler UI. The simpler UI will improve the UX for 80% users (lets say for the sake of the argument) and the other 20% will either be able to figure out the marginal increased complexity or will be outweighed by the improvement of the previously mentioned users.