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Re:Spotify hits 83M paying subscribers, more than double App... by mekkkkkk on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:38PM (#17620293)
This also drives me crazy. Maybe not exactly the discovery feature, but how flimsy the UX feels. Features disappear and reappear all the time.

I've listened to a Spotify people brag about their A/B testing efforts. It is absolutely crazy how many different variants they have at any given time. A/B might be valuable, but to me it should be conservative.

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Re:Spotify hits 83M paying subscribers, more than double App... by hk__2 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:42PM (#17621509)
> I've listened to a Spotify people brag about their A/B testing efforts. It is absolutely crazy how many different variants they have at any given time.

Yeah, I once "decompiled" the Spotify desktop app (it’s mostly a bunch of zip’d web apps glued together), and found details about ad targeting and A/B identifiers. I had 20+ identifiers, most of them regarding ads (i.e. named `ads_<something>`), but also some with weird names like `liar_detective_rollout_Exposed`.

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