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Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by bentcorner on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:22PM (#32072200)
Google recently shut off Hangouts on me with a flight (since several of my contacts reported that Hangouts worked fine for them).

It's kind of mind boggling they'd decide to do that - the replacement they direct me to (Google Chat) doesn't even have feature parity so I just dropped them and moved my social circle using Hangouts to a different app (since at this point they all faced the same problem and we decided on a different platform).

I'm really curious how the A/B testing for this went down - Google is willingly throwing customers away because somebody wants to pump numbers for a new app that is objectively worse than the old one.

At this point Google Maps is the only product that is keeping me with them, but even that one is beginning to wear thin.

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Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by jklinger410 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:06PM (#32073648)
> Google Chat) doesn't even have feature parity

Which features are you missing?

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Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by bentcorner on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:15PM (#32074437)
Video chat. It redirects me to Google Meet (yet another app!) and the model that Google Meet uses is completely backwards (create a meeting, then invite people) compared to how I use Hangouts (call someone).

It's a complete pita and the family-acceptable-factor is low.

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Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by cupofpython on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:57PM (#32074253)
check the AB test results
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