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Meta is courting the risk of going full Orkut, where people come by to check out early hype on an unfinished product, find the feature set underwhelming, and he
by idlewords 3y ago
Meta is courting the risk of going full Orkut, where people come by to check out early hype on an unfinished product, find the feature set underwhelming, and head off elsewhere. The tradeoff with getting tens of millions of users at launch is that it will be harder to get a disappointed user to come back and try again than it was to get them to try the first time.
I'm sure for the dev team this is a busy time, and the work they need to do to accommodate so many new users creates a feeling of forward progress. But none of that work (from what I'm seeing in discussions) seems to involve adding basic functionality, while in the interim people are forming a durable first impression of the service.
- deepfriedbits 3y agoGood insight. I think what might help them a little bit, however, is that the features they're sure to add in the coming weeks are known commodities at other networks, so people will already be aware of the value the features add, such as a timeline that only shows folks you're following.
- octacat 3y agoIf non-working product was the stuff they've ever cared about. IG: - reels were rolled/rerolled so many times with so many bugs. - have you tried to open some old post from your grid? Scroll is soo broken and loads 1 page of images, freezes, loads another. So, to scroll 300 posts you need to spend 5 minutes. Never was fixed and probably never will. - Chat for IG does not open images on desktop (or some images). Yea, I know desktop is not a priority anymore. It feels like it is neverending AB testing or neverending beta.