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Secret should consider changing their algorithm. How about the following: You need at least 7 contacts that use Secret, but approximately half (or 1/3 or 1/4,
by kenjackson 12y ago
Secret should consider changing their algorithm. How about the following:
You need at least 7 contacts that use Secret, but approximately half (or 1/3 or 1/4, whatever gives the best experience) of your messages will come from people NOT on your contact list. That is, most of the posts will be from people you don't know. But enough will be from your contacts to keep it personal...
- Pwntastic 12y agoWell there are two separate streams, people outside your circle, and people in/around your circle. So that would kind of defeat the purpose of the "friends" stream entirely.
- bentcorner 12y agoThe allure of Secret is that you know that a given secret is from someone you know. Diluting the pool is harmful to that message. What they could do instead is only share secrets if you have N contacts in common. This solves the bot problem - the target will not add the bots. You could also have some sort of threshold before showing secrets as well. That said, I've never used Secret so this may or may not work. It'd be interesting to play with the Secret data to see how the social circles overlap and what kind of traffic patterns they see.
- gus_massa 12y agoIf you know N+1 contacts of X, then you create N+1 bots. Each bot has only N of the N+1 contacts. So, each bot receive the secrets from everyone except one person.
- ultrasaurus 12y agoIt's still vulnerable to a binary search to find an author: create an account with the first half of your contacts and another with the second half, see which account has the secret (if it's in neither, it's from outside your network and you don't care) and repeat the process on that half. You'll figure the account with a dozen or two accounts created.