Facebook has more bugs than a bait shop
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Never mind the privacy issues (which are really a red herring I think akin to being outraged that there aren't walls built alongside every road on earth to stop people from walking out into traffic), every time I use it something is flaky. Not to mention usability issues that wouldn't pass muster in some crappy open source linux application let alone one so widely used by so many less computer literate people. It's a horrible design, though accident might be a better word than design as there seems to be very little if any thought given to the end users. Unfortunately facebook is where everyone I know is and that's the real reason Facebook is here to stay all talk of alternatives to the contrary aside, the "killer app" of facebook is the people that are already on it and nothing else. Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application because if they don't they'll never get off the ground.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
John C wrote:
Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application
It's been done before. Remember MySpace?
John C wrote:
every time I use it something is flaky
:sigh: I started using Facebook because it was more stable than MySpace. Seems like maybe it's just a matter of time with these social networking sites.
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John C wrote:
Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application
It's been done before. Remember MySpace?
John C wrote:
every time I use it something is flaky
:sigh: I started using Facebook because it was more stable than MySpace. Seems like maybe it's just a matter of time with these social networking sites.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
Seems like maybe it's just a matter of time with these social networking sites.
How old is this one? (CodeProject)
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John C wrote:
Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application
It's been done before. Remember MySpace?
John C wrote:
every time I use it something is flaky
:sigh: I started using Facebook because it was more stable than MySpace. Seems like maybe it's just a matter of time with these social networking sites.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
It's been done before. Remember MySpace?
No things are entirely different now, before they were both new and people were hopping back and forth. Facebook is entrenched at this point.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
I started using Facebook because it was more stable than MySpace. Seems like maybe it's just a matter of time with these social networking sites.
It just goes to show that a good idea with minimal execution is far more important than having a slick well designed application these days. If I were getting proposals from different companies to build a social networking site and they presented me with Facebook as it is right now I'd laugh in their faces and send them packing. It's clunky, un-intuitive, bizarre is not too strong a word for the UI and yet it has all those people on it and they do muddle along learning to work around the byzantine user interface with all it's quirks and weird redundancies.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
Seems like maybe it's just a matter of time with these social networking sites.
How old is this one? (CodeProject)
The social side of CodeProject is uniquely positioned and still going strong, as for finding answers to programming questions it used to rule but StackOverflow is eating it for lunch and has been for many months now. At least for the higher end technical stuff I tend to search for. Almost every time these days StackOverflow comes up first and has the answer. (I did warn the powers that be here about the potential of S.O. a *long* time ago when S.O. first went online and I saw the potential of it, but it apparently fell on deaf ears here until they recently reacted with the questions and answers feature.) What a great blast from the past reading my original post about S.O. going live and people here reacting to it: StackOverflow has gone live[^]
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
modified on Friday, May 28, 2010 4:18 PM
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
It's been done before. Remember MySpace?
No things are entirely different now, before they were both new and people were hopping back and forth. Facebook is entrenched at this point.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
I started using Facebook because it was more stable than MySpace. Seems like maybe it's just a matter of time with these social networking sites.
It just goes to show that a good idea with minimal execution is far more important than having a slick well designed application these days. If I were getting proposals from different companies to build a social networking site and they presented me with Facebook as it is right now I'd laugh in their faces and send them packing. It's clunky, un-intuitive, bizarre is not too strong a word for the UI and yet it has all those people on it and they do muddle along learning to work around the byzantine user interface with all it's quirks and weird redundancies.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
Social experiment: Make your own version. Have it optimized to run stupid games. Offer Zygna the ability to use your network, for half the cut Facebook gets, but being exclusive. You won't even have to advertise. "Farmville is no longer on Facebook? But my crops!I'm leaving."
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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Never mind the privacy issues (which are really a red herring I think akin to being outraged that there aren't walls built alongside every road on earth to stop people from walking out into traffic), every time I use it something is flaky. Not to mention usability issues that wouldn't pass muster in some crappy open source linux application let alone one so widely used by so many less computer literate people. It's a horrible design, though accident might be a better word than design as there seems to be very little if any thought given to the end users. Unfortunately facebook is where everyone I know is and that's the real reason Facebook is here to stay all talk of alternatives to the contrary aside, the "killer app" of facebook is the people that are already on it and nothing else. Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application because if they don't they'll never get off the ground.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
The video upload pisses me off a lot. It seems to work two different ways and seems like you can leave the page during upload, but no...you better not! Also, it failed to process a video 6 times without giving me any reason, just took a permanent vacation after it said it started to process it.
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Never mind the privacy issues (which are really a red herring I think akin to being outraged that there aren't walls built alongside every road on earth to stop people from walking out into traffic), every time I use it something is flaky. Not to mention usability issues that wouldn't pass muster in some crappy open source linux application let alone one so widely used by so many less computer literate people. It's a horrible design, though accident might be a better word than design as there seems to be very little if any thought given to the end users. Unfortunately facebook is where everyone I know is and that's the real reason Facebook is here to stay all talk of alternatives to the contrary aside, the "killer app" of facebook is the people that are already on it and nothing else. Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application because if they don't they'll never get off the ground.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
John C wrote:
Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application because if they don't they'll never get off the ground.
Millions minus one. I terminated my FB account after only one week of using it.
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The social side of CodeProject is uniquely positioned and still going strong, as for finding answers to programming questions it used to rule but StackOverflow is eating it for lunch and has been for many months now. At least for the higher end technical stuff I tend to search for. Almost every time these days StackOverflow comes up first and has the answer. (I did warn the powers that be here about the potential of S.O. a *long* time ago when S.O. first went online and I saw the potential of it, but it apparently fell on deaf ears here until they recently reacted with the questions and answers feature.) What a great blast from the past reading my original post about S.O. going live and people here reacting to it: StackOverflow has gone live[^]
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
modified on Friday, May 28, 2010 4:18 PM
John C wrote:
What a great blast from the past reading my original post about S.O. going live and people here reacting to it: StackOverflow has gone live[^]
My reaction[^] (would be the same today): CP is the best when it comes to articles, and the discussions on programming forums are pretty bad anyway.
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The social side of CodeProject is uniquely positioned and still going strong, as for finding answers to programming questions it used to rule but StackOverflow is eating it for lunch and has been for many months now. At least for the higher end technical stuff I tend to search for. Almost every time these days StackOverflow comes up first and has the answer. (I did warn the powers that be here about the potential of S.O. a *long* time ago when S.O. first went online and I saw the potential of it, but it apparently fell on deaf ears here until they recently reacted with the questions and answers feature.) What a great blast from the past reading my original post about S.O. going live and people here reacting to it: StackOverflow has gone live[^]
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
modified on Friday, May 28, 2010 4:18 PM
I problem I have with SO is that questions loose currency extremely quickly, where here I sometimes get answers to questions over a week later.
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
It's been done before. Remember MySpace?
No things are entirely different now, before they were both new and people were hopping back and forth. Facebook is entrenched at this point.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
I started using Facebook because it was more stable than MySpace. Seems like maybe it's just a matter of time with these social networking sites.
It just goes to show that a good idea with minimal execution is far more important than having a slick well designed application these days. If I were getting proposals from different companies to build a social networking site and they presented me with Facebook as it is right now I'd laugh in their faces and send them packing. It's clunky, un-intuitive, bizarre is not too strong a word for the UI and yet it has all those people on it and they do muddle along learning to work around the byzantine user interface with all it's quirks and weird redundancies.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
John C wrote:
It just goes to show that a good idea with minimal execution is far more important than having a slick well designed application these days.
One of my clients didn't even let me neatly align textboxes etc. and used a very young, still quite crappy looking, dev application for images to print hundreds of brochures. I was mortified, because they (naturally, it was me) credited me with the development. They simply didn't see why some little things on the UI weren't aligned, people were queuing up to buy the app, so what else mattered?
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John C wrote:
Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application because if they don't they'll never get off the ground.
Millions minus one. I terminated my FB account after only one week of using it.
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Never mind the privacy issues (which are really a red herring I think akin to being outraged that there aren't walls built alongside every road on earth to stop people from walking out into traffic), every time I use it something is flaky. Not to mention usability issues that wouldn't pass muster in some crappy open source linux application let alone one so widely used by so many less computer literate people. It's a horrible design, though accident might be a better word than design as there seems to be very little if any thought given to the end users. Unfortunately facebook is where everyone I know is and that's the real reason Facebook is here to stay all talk of alternatives to the contrary aside, the "killer app" of facebook is the people that are already on it and nothing else. Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application because if they don't they'll never get off the ground.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
It amazes me they have grown so big. Their site has so many issues, from trivial little things to some major downtime. I thought about the same for eBay years ago, it was so hard for an average person to post an item for sale, it was shocking how fast they grew. Well, everything just isn't designed as nice as CP ;)
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Never mind the privacy issues (which are really a red herring I think akin to being outraged that there aren't walls built alongside every road on earth to stop people from walking out into traffic), every time I use it something is flaky. Not to mention usability issues that wouldn't pass muster in some crappy open source linux application let alone one so widely used by so many less computer literate people. It's a horrible design, though accident might be a better word than design as there seems to be very little if any thought given to the end users. Unfortunately facebook is where everyone I know is and that's the real reason Facebook is here to stay all talk of alternatives to the contrary aside, the "killer app" of facebook is the people that are already on it and nothing else. Anyone who thinks they are going to build a viable alternative to FaceBook needs to consider how they are going to get millions of people to simultaneously switch to their application because if they don't they'll never get off the ground.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
That's what the JavaScript cancer has left on his path, before making a new html spec there should be first a whole new JS spec like 2.0, JS hurts industry more than anythig it has like 15 years old damn :mad: