Do you know that around 50% of your friends' updates are never seen by you? Why: Stories are buried deep in your newsfeed; facebook also only shows stories of the friends who regularly interact with you on facebook. Additback digs deep in your newsfeed to find the most interesting stories
No more endless scrolling of your newsfeed to find interesting post by your friends. Get a ranked list of trending stories every couple of hours
This is a bold step, I must say, Facebook is known to raise issues with app that provide something that Facebook is already providing but in a better way.
Ive been actually missing real news e.g. birthday, career moves, events etc on Facebook's normal feed - if this can figure out the stories I missed, it'll be good. I ll be using it definitely
> Around 50% of the updates by your friends are never seen by you
Well yes...I suspect that's the same ratio of HN posts that are never read....because no one liked/upvoted them...and if thhe algorithms are right, that's a good thing. I'm not saying there isn't room for a new way to rank posts (in either FB or HN)...but it's a good thing to not see 100% of all the drek that gets posted to your news feed.
* edit: What would be useful is to see a comparison of how the OP's rendition of the feed compares to the status quo. I've been mostly satisfied with FB (though how do you really know how good it could be?) two of my best friends recently got married. Their friends are also close friends of mine. Theoretically, my newsfeed should be absolutely swamped with notes and photos of their wedding, and a constant circlejerk of likes and comments (I've posted scores of photos and tagged them myself, which creates a mass of FB notifications in itself)...but I've been pleasantly surprised to see that FB has still kept up an interesting variety in my feed.
I totally agree, that it's a good thing not to see 100% of posts from either HN or FB
But the updates that you miss are also some which have a lot of likes/shares/comments on FB. That's what we do, we don't dig out crap posts, but only those posts that outrank others.
So we have found out that you also miss those high ranked posts, almost as much as 50%
The app basically goes around the facebook EdgeRank algo and finds trending stories -- as opposed to only showing the stories from friends with whom you have a good edgeRank.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 50.1 ms ] threadNo more endless scrolling of your newsfeed to find interesting post by your friends. Get a ranked list of trending stories every couple of hours
> Around 50% of the updates by your friends are never seen by you
Well yes...I suspect that's the same ratio of HN posts that are never read....because no one liked/upvoted them...and if thhe algorithms are right, that's a good thing. I'm not saying there isn't room for a new way to rank posts (in either FB or HN)...but it's a good thing to not see 100% of all the drek that gets posted to your news feed.
* edit: What would be useful is to see a comparison of how the OP's rendition of the feed compares to the status quo. I've been mostly satisfied with FB (though how do you really know how good it could be?) two of my best friends recently got married. Their friends are also close friends of mine. Theoretically, my newsfeed should be absolutely swamped with notes and photos of their wedding, and a constant circlejerk of likes and comments (I've posted scores of photos and tagged them myself, which creates a mass of FB notifications in itself)...but I've been pleasantly surprised to see that FB has still kept up an interesting variety in my feed.
But the updates that you miss are also some which have a lot of likes/shares/comments on FB. That's what we do, we don't dig out crap posts, but only those posts that outrank others.
So we have found out that you also miss those high ranked posts, almost as much as 50%