Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no...
by ghaff on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:31PM
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>Had OKCupid stayed separate they might have had to tinderify anyways just to survive.
I never used them but I did read their blog and my sense is that they leaned a bit towards that demographic anyway.
As I wrote elsewhere, a lot of people jump to the conclusion that a company was ruined by a buyer or that a company let themselves stagnate. But I'd argue (agree?) it's often the case that the "marginal user" (or mainstream audience) have no real interest in what appealed to the early adopters.
And the early adopters may have moved on as well. I was pretty into eBay as an auction site at one point and I mostly lost interest.
I never used them but I did read their blog and my sense is that they leaned a bit towards that demographic anyway.
As I wrote elsewhere, a lot of people jump to the conclusion that a company was ruined by a buyer or that a company let themselves stagnate. But I'd argue (agree?) it's often the case that the "marginal user" (or mainstream audience) have no real interest in what appealed to the early adopters.
And the early adopters may have moved on as well. I was pretty into eBay as an auction site at one point and I mostly lost interest.