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Re:Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak by mehwoot on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:51AM (#17713505)
The reason goodharts law exists is because its hard to measure things like user satisfaction, so we're left with poor proxies like user engagement.
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Re:Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak by Uberphallus on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @03:16AM (#17713807)
Most metrics would imply prison is great: low bounce rate, average session length of a couple of years, very flat retention curve.
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