Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by hacker_9 on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:03PM
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You mistake what I mean, I meant that the sites that came after appeared more technical to the end user. Also those examples you give came before Facebook (mostly? Haven't even heard of some), which Facebook beat by providing a better service. That includes performance sure, also by restricting user customisation the UI always looked cleaner and more appealing, and it had far better social tools, providing a better experience all round.
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Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by ethbro on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @10:21PM
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There's probably a lot of people on here who don't remember MySpace and Geocities, but restriction of UI customization was a huge FB advantage. The former proved that users cannot be trusted with foreground and background color control. Not to mention autoplaying music applets.
Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by hammock on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @08:36PM
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Facebook always did and still looks super technical to me. It's not as visual as the average website. It has so many different windows/sections on every screen. And the settings portal has like 100 layers.
Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by kristianc on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:43AM
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I'm not sure MySpace ever really knew what it wanted to achieve, other than providing a lot of inventory for ads.
Very little effort went into ever evolving the user experience beyond a v1, the backend underpinning it all was legendarily bad, and there was no concept of ad personalization whatsoever.
MySpace kind of stumbled across Music as a product direction, and developed something that was a bit like an ahead of its time version of Soundcloud, but discovery was still horrible and by then people were migrating to Facebook anyway.