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This sort of notification-barrage is a common problem in mobile apps with multiple teams and I really wish it wasn’t. I still use Facebook quite a bit and I’m c

This sort of notification-barrage is a common problem in mobile apps with multiple teams and I really wish it wasn’t. I still use Facebook quite a bit and I’m consistently frustrated by how degenerate the concept of a “notification” has become. Some of the finest engineers I know work at Meta, I know it’s not a technical problem, I think it’s an organizational problem. For example… Team A ships feature X and sets their KPI to some arbitrary measure of engagement. They miss, obviously, but instead of regrouping and hitting the drawing board, A doubles down and pressures Team B to point towards X in feature Y. A sees some marginal level of gain in engagement for X, obviously, so the intervention is deemed a success. 6mos later, Team A is asked to return the favor and add a modal pointing to new feature Z, per the request of Team B. I don’t really know what the solution is except outside of careful org-wide watchdogging to ensure this sort of user-hostile engagement infighting gets nipped in the bud.

LaundroMat 1y ago
It makes you wonder whether they use the app themselves...
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Terr_ 1y ago
> This sort of notification-barrage is a common problem in mobile apps with multiple teams That makes me think about how everyone defining an operational alert/warning thinks theirs is very important, leading to so many that users time them all out and everyone loses.
- redserk 1y ago
  It’s especially frustrating when DoorDash will happily use notifications for both order status/issues and spam various deal/promotion notifications. There’s simply no way to turn them completely off so you only get order status notifications on iOS. I ended up disabling notifications completely (and eventually just deleting it)
  - chipsrafferty 1y ago
    You can get order status via SMS. That way you can disable all notifs
- rgavuliak 1y ago
  For the team that worked on a feature for month it's the whole world at the time of release. Being mindful that is not the end-users whole world, but just a tiny insignificant fraction is something easily lost in denial.
bigiain 1y ago
> Some of the finest engineers I know work at Meta, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher

LaundroMat 1y ago

It makes you wonder whether they use the app themselves...

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Terr_ 1y ago

> This sort of notification-barrage is a common problem in mobile apps with multiple teams That makes me think about how everyone defining an operational alert/warning thinks theirs is very important, leading to so many that users time them all out and everyone loses.

redserk 1y ago
It’s especially frustrating when DoorDash will happily use notifications for both order status/issues and spam various deal/promotion notifications. There’s simply no way to turn them completely off so you only get order status notifications on iOS. I ended up disabling notifications completely (and eventually just deleting it)
- chipsrafferty 1y ago
  You can get order status via SMS. That way you can disable all notifs
rgavuliak 1y ago
For the team that worked on a feature for month it's the whole world at the time of release. Being mindful that is not the end-users whole world, but just a tiny insignificant fraction is something easily lost in denial.

bigiain 1y ago

> Some of the finest engineers I know work at Meta, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher