Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by astrodust on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:33PM (#19227186)

Delete Facebook.

Honestly, everything this company does is shady beyond all shame.

Twitter keeps fucking around with their timeline feed, but they've preserved a "chronological, show me everything" option through all of their other bad ideas.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by r3bl on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:45PM (#19227298)

Do you hide tweets liked by the people you follow? Shadow notifications? "In case you've missed it" sections?

After a few refreshes of my Twitter homepage in a short time span, I did a little research: I've edited the CSS to make the distinction of "liked" tweets more obvious. Over 50% of "fresh" content turned out to be likes by the people I follow that are in no way chronological.

You can fight it... for now, but I assume not for long. I've stopped relying on Twitter for that same reason I've stopped relying on Facebook.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by badfrog on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:50PM (#19227362)

> Shadow notifications?

Is that the name for the "recent tweet from X" notifications? Those have made Twitter notifications completely useless for me. :(

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by r3bl on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:12PM (#19227579)

That's how I refer to all the notifications that I didn't expect and don't need.

As far as I know, there's no universal term for them. Since we already associate darkness with bad UX patterns, "shadow notifications" as a subset of "dark patterns" has a nice ring to it.

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