[Cthulhu_]

I found that a really interesting development, and they embraced it. Probably the best example of "go with where your users are going" I can think of.

And it's silly as well, because anyone with a few weeks of software development knowledge could probably hack a Twitter-like together. Not that at that scale, admittedly, but still, prototype-twitter was nothing fancy.

[pimlottc]

There’s a term for this: “desire path”

Like when you see a worn path in the grass where hundreds of people took the same shortcuts instead of using the proper planned-out pathways.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path