This whole exercise was a flawed application of user behavior metrics.
Piss off 0.5% of people here, 0.5% of people there, do that enough times and suddenly you’ve pissed off your whole userbase.
And then they didn’t even seem to consider that maybe those 0.50% of people using that button are clicking that option incredibly frequently.
I wonder how many people inside Google itself complained about the change.
If a feature isn’t difficult to maintain, don’t remove it.
Something else I thought of: the power users who know better probably turn off software analytics and telemetry. I wonder if this affects user experience data sets negatively by only sampling users who aren’t informed on privacy issues.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 11.2 ms ] threadThis whole exercise was a flawed application of user behavior metrics.
Piss off 0.5% of people here, 0.5% of people there, do that enough times and suddenly you’ve pissed off your whole userbase.
And then they didn’t even seem to consider that maybe those 0.50% of people using that button are clicking that option incredibly frequently.
I wonder how many people inside Google itself complained about the change.
If a feature isn’t difficult to maintain, don’t remove it.
Something else I thought of: the power users who know better probably turn off software analytics and telemetry. I wonder if this affects user experience data sets negatively by only sampling users who aren’t informed on privacy issues.