Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by kayoone on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:44AM
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Because maintaining N different user interfaces is hard.
No matter if the underlying approach or data is the same, the user interface is different and from that point on you have to take them all into account when you make a change.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by KhalPanda on Friday March 28, 2014 @05:41AM
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They're already doing it with their numerous Facebook apps for different platforms.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by biesnecker on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:04AM
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And it's hard.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by KhalPanda on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:25AM
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And they're still doing a perfectly good job of it.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by untog on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:45AM
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Presumably at a large expense.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by biesnecker on Friday March 28, 2014 @09:15AM
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Ridiculously large expense. And not always all that well -- it's just that most people don't use most of the platform simultaneously on different devices / stacks / versions, so they don't notice.
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by KhalPanda on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:48AM
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But apparently this is all "for the people". :-)
Re:Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
by croggle on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:43AM
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What on earth are you talking about?
The old design did not work across a set of devices. The new design works across a greater number of these device.
Please suggest an alternative.
note: device could mean anything from phone to small netbook.
Each news feed is totally personalized. This is done without having to worry about maintaining "N" feeds, it's built into the system, built into the approach.
Why is the design something that needs to be fragmented into buckets? This is a broader choice, accepting that all users need to be on some defined path.
You can measure and improve metrics without being concerned about the particular CSS file being delivered to each person.