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"There is something to this, of course. But I have a contrary proposal: users love perfectionism." Wrong. I would love to see more new features on reddit rathe
by omouse 19y ago
"There is something to this, of course. But I have a contrary proposal: users love perfectionism."
Wrong. I would love to see more new features on reddit rather than waiting for them to re-write everything. The search function is still somewhat broken!
There is even competition of sorts: http://redditmedia.com/ http://redditmedia.com/
That site displays thumbnails for stories...why doesn't reddit.com have an extra section or option/setting for that? So many good things could be done if not for this perfectionism bullshit.
Another good story: 37signals took a long time fixing Backpack and finally released a new version. Too late, I had already switched to Simple GTD. I don't get why they didn't incrementally improve things...I bet they've lost many more users due to their slowness.
Perfectionism is paralyzing.
- steve 19y agoAlmost, Success is paralyzing.
- staunch 19y ago"Once a product gets past the stage where it has glaring flaws, you start to get used to it, and gradually whatever features it happens to have become its identity." -- Hardest Lessons #2 Reddit certainly fell into that one big time. Digg has done a much better job at maintaining a fast development pace.