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by zippergz
3749 days ago
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I'm not inherently opposed to a smarter order, but I feel like it (at least in the case of Facebook and Twitter so far) breaks a fundamental part of the use case for me. I check in every so often, and want to scroll back to the last post I saw, so I can know I saw everything. When it is sorted non-chronologically, this is impossible. I see the same thing multiple times because it's sorted near the top, and I miss some stuff completely because it gets sorted to the bottom. Also, I'm not sure what signals they're using to rank posts. I could imagine using likes and comments, but I don't think that would accurately identify the posts I most want to see. For example, I follow a couple of local restaurants who post specials and similar things on Instagram. I never "like" or comment on those; it seems pointless (I use those actions to communicate with my friends on their posts). If you use that signal, those posts which I always want to see will get pushed to the bottom. I'm not sure what other data they have to use. |
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I am on the same boat. I'm not sure how they don't see the contradiction in pushing mobile more and more at the same time ignoring the problem that their default newsfeed is stale. They still have the option to switch between 'Most Recent' and 'Top Stories', but it defaults to 'Top Stories' which wasn't the case a while back -- it used to default to whatever I last chose.
Now I don't check Facebook that often mainly because there is nothing new, and its always the same handful of people I am forced to engage with.