364 sats \ 5 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 5 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: SN new editor testing playground meta
I have to agree with this. Eat the sunken time and move on. I told @k00b already but the last person I know that moved to WYAOANDNA or whatever ended up shutting down their startup because of it.
It already has very poor markdown support. Slack went this similar direction and I aggressively despise it.
How does this provide substantial value to users and how is this gaining more users on sn? Near biggest feature development cost, right? Will this substantially provide as much value as the other features?
What is WYAOANDNA? Google doesn't help me.
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It is a joke I think. WYSIWYG.
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I think there can be a fallacy of change = progress. SN has landed on a goldmine in terms of easy, minimal UX that just works. I can look at it on a 24" monitor or an iPhone 7, or whatever, and it just works. It blows Bitcoin reddit out of the water. The risk of changing that is extremely high.
I reckon content discovery (recommended posts etc) and absorbing more of the millions of Bitcoin reddit users is the growth vector to explore here.
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I reckon content discovery (recommended posts etc) and absorbing more of the millions of Bitcoin reddit users is the growth vector to explore here.
How would recommended posts work?
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It's an attempt to make the core product - posting and commenting - easier to use.
Measuring a feature's absolute performance, let alone relative performance, is hard to do as you know.
I tend to believe though that making a product easier to use is exactly what moves the needle on usage (esp. when compared to tacking on features).
It needs to be both easier to use and better though. I'm not sure it's better as is right now.
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