Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment

Re:Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment by civilized on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:56PM (#29018997)

And as Twitter shows, it's not hard to offer both options and let users choose.

Twitter also implemented a timer so that, if you choose simple reverse chron, it forces you back into the ranking algorithm after a certain period of time.

Hmm, I wonder why they'd go to the trouble to do that? Maybe these social networks have motivations that override user experience?

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Re:Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment by sam0x17 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @05:13PM (#29019224)

FB isn't going to do anything that doesn't affect at least 30% of users. As always this is all about revenue.

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Re:Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment by civilized on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:58PM (#29020672)

I'm sure FB has done many, many things that affect less than 30% of users

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Re:Facebook removed the news feed algorithm in an experiment by sam0x17 on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:50PM (#29069361)

OK name something they added that they actually kept in the current version of FB that is used by less than 30% of users in the life of their account and isn't there for regulatory reasons. They use way too much A/B testing for anything like that to survive longer than 2 years.

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