Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype

Re:Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype by danesparza on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:28AM (#19699412)

"Though it's unsure if Instagram purposely planted this to get me tweet about it"

I suppose it's game-over if Instagram is that good at inception. :-)

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Re:Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype by geuszb on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:48AM (#19699563)

Big companies know that every one of their binaries gets torn apart by people eager for a scoop and have exploited this in the past. See for example https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/08/06/google-just-rickrol... (though this one was for a laugh)

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Re:Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype by dibujaron on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:40AM (#19699489)

Ooh, I don't know. If they regularly see people dig through their code and then tweet about what they find, planting things in the code sounds like a great way to "soft announce" features to gauge reaction. That way if they decide not to go forward, they don't lose face, it was just some unannounced feature that they were considering.

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Re:Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype by r00fus on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:05PM (#19707239)

It’s not like this sort of thing hasn’t been done in the Apple rumors ecosystem for a long time...

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Re:Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype by reshie on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:50AM (#19699586)

happens more than you may think. as for instagram doing it here i don't know either.

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