16-01-2022, 08:41 PM
I've never used Facebook but have had to create a fake account on occasion when people have said 'you REALLY have to see this thing'. I find it almost unusable. Horrible to look at, impossible to search, and I still don't understand how their comment sorting system works. You say show me ALL comments in order and it shows you some of them in random order? So I gave up and never bother now. And I am a software engineer whose job it is to understand and automate testing stuff like that.
It's not designed to be a store of knowledge but as an endorphin trigger to keep users coming back. It is specifically designed to make you have to keep checking so you don't miss something. They call that 'engagement'. It's why it works well for sales.
instead of a new group I'd look into fixing the problem of people who can't contribute here and work out why then help them get set up so they can.
Being involved with software development/testing it's always interesting when people try to use Facebook as an example of how to do software testing. Their approach to testing was always interesting (been a while since I looked so not sure what it is now). But the truth is the quality of Facebooks software doesn't matter. Not compared to medical software say, or air traffic control or even banking. If Facebook releases crappy software, some users are affected, they complain a bit then go right back to using it the next day. For a while they used to say they didn't have testers or QA and it was always funny having to explain to clueless upper management types that no, we can't just get rid of all our testers here just because Facebook do it!
Simon
It's not designed to be a store of knowledge but as an endorphin trigger to keep users coming back. It is specifically designed to make you have to keep checking so you don't miss something. They call that 'engagement'. It's why it works well for sales.
instead of a new group I'd look into fixing the problem of people who can't contribute here and work out why then help them get set up so they can.
Being involved with software development/testing it's always interesting when people try to use Facebook as an example of how to do software testing. Their approach to testing was always interesting (been a while since I looked so not sure what it is now). But the truth is the quality of Facebooks software doesn't matter. Not compared to medical software say, or air traffic control or even banking. If Facebook releases crappy software, some users are affected, they complain a bit then go right back to using it the next day. For a while they used to say they didn't have testers or QA and it was always funny having to explain to clueless upper management types that no, we can't just get rid of all our testers here just because Facebook do it!
Simon