The "The 13 Oct 21 FT 'Like' Feature - [now restored to prior version]" thread
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:25 pm
#31
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Social media. A first for me.
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:26 pm
#32
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Where is the "unlike" button?
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:35 pm
#33
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I dont see people who likes my posts. I cant see it anymore. Can you fix it for me please.
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:35 pm
#34
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@IBJoel, from a UI design perspective, one wants users to get as deep into the UI as possible with as few scrolls or hyperlinks as possible. Fixing the ARG issue by adding a separate box that takes up 25% more real estate...that is NOT a good UI design.
At the very least, please see if the developers can remove the line break/adjust the column width of "The following users liked this post" so that if 5 or fewer folks like a post, the space taken up is 1 line as opposed to 2.
Please pass these suggestions along to your development team.
EDIT: Team for your information why IB may be collecting/posting this info, normally software companies collect patterns (whether its sales patterns, site visit patterns/site click or like patterns). The collect this info then use it to push appropriate information (normally marketing) back to the user. For example, if Jen likes Joes stuff, and we push X marketing material to Joe, we should push to Jen too.
And, often they aggregate the data that's collected and sell it to a 3rd party. The more data they can link together, the better 'story' or insight they can glean into us. The internet isn't free. Companies make BIG money selling our collected data to aggregators, which they in turn sell this data to product companies, which then use this info as a potential client listing, and they push marketing material on us.
At the very least, please see if the developers can remove the line break/adjust the column width of "The following users liked this post" so that if 5 or fewer folks like a post, the space taken up is 1 line as opposed to 2.
Please pass these suggestions along to your development team.
EDIT: Team for your information why IB may be collecting/posting this info, normally software companies collect patterns (whether its sales patterns, site visit patterns/site click or like patterns). The collect this info then use it to push appropriate information (normally marketing) back to the user. For example, if Jen likes Joes stuff, and we push X marketing material to Joe, we should push to Jen too.
And, often they aggregate the data that's collected and sell it to a 3rd party. The more data they can link together, the better 'story' or insight they can glean into us. The internet isn't free. Companies make BIG money selling our collected data to aggregators, which they in turn sell this data to product companies, which then use this info as a potential client listing, and they push marketing material on us.
I also can't remember the last time I intentionally clicked on an ad that showed up in FT, or an airline/hotel/rental car website, or LinkedIn, or pretty much any website ... and this is why I've never used FB/Twitter/IG/etc
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:36 pm
#35
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Now I am not seeing a like button on good omni.
FWIW, all of this xxx liked of xxx posts etc stuff is confusing clutter to me.
FWIW, all of this xxx liked of xxx posts etc stuff is confusing clutter to me.
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:37 pm
#36
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Oct 13, 2021 | 5:40 pm
#37
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@IBJoel, from a UI design perspective, one wants users to get as deep into the UI as possible with as few scrolls or hyperlinks as possible. Fixing the ARG issue by adding a separate box that takes up 25% more real estate...that is NOT a good UI design.
At the very least, please see if the developers can remove the line break/adjust the column width of "The following users liked this post" so that if 5 or fewer folks like a post, the space taken up is 1 line as opposed to 2.
Please pass these suggestions along to your development team.
EDIT: Team for your information why IB may be collecting/posting this info, normally software companies collect patterns (whether its sales patterns, site visit patterns/site click or like patterns). The collect this info then use it to push appropriate information (normally marketing) back to the user. For example, if Jen likes Joes stuff, and we push X marketing material to Joe, we should push to Jen too.
And, often they aggregate the data that's collected and sell it to a 3rd party. The more data they can link together, the better 'story' or insight they can glean into us. The internet isn't free. Companies make BIG money selling our collected data to aggregators, which they in turn sell this data to product companies, which then use this info as a potential client listing, and they push marketing material on us.
At the very least, please see if the developers can remove the line break/adjust the column width of "The following users liked this post" so that if 5 or fewer folks like a post, the space taken up is 1 line as opposed to 2.
Please pass these suggestions along to your development team.
EDIT: Team for your information why IB may be collecting/posting this info, normally software companies collect patterns (whether its sales patterns, site visit patterns/site click or like patterns). The collect this info then use it to push appropriate information (normally marketing) back to the user. For example, if Jen likes Joes stuff, and we push X marketing material to Joe, we should push to Jen too.
And, often they aggregate the data that's collected and sell it to a 3rd party. The more data they can link together, the better 'story' or insight they can glean into us. The internet isn't free. Companies make BIG money selling our collected data to aggregators, which they in turn sell this data to product companies, which then use this info as a potential client listing, and they push marketing material on us.
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:43 pm
#38
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IBJoel, can you please fix it for me. I dont see people who likes my posts. I have a problem. I am on my iPhone.
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:50 pm
#39
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I thought it was fine before but it's not a huge deal. I do agree that it lays out a bit weird with the like banner being between the the two posts. It would seem to flow better if it were attached up against the bottom of the one it pertained to.
Oct 13, 2021 | 5:50 pm
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Oct 13, 2021 | 6:16 pm
#41
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Also...on my PC. I see posts where under the post in the banner it will say "name liked this post" but under the person's user name where it says likes it says 0.
Oct 13, 2021 | 6:55 pm
#42
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One other piece of feedback -- it's not intuitive whether the box describing the likes refers to the post above or below the box. (I liked corky's because hers was at the top of a page.) There should be an obvious visual connection between the post and the likes.
Oct 13, 2021 | 7:03 pm
#43
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Oct 13, 2021 | 7:32 pm
#44
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I just don’t get the necessity of this new feature. What is it really trying to accomplish? It comes off as a bit narcissistic and “needy”. I’d like to be able to “opt out“ of this new feature.
Oct 13, 2021 | 7:36 pm
#45
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I do think there are still 3 underlying comments/concerns that we hope your dev team can address:
1. The new like format takes up a lot more real estate.
2. It's a bit unclear in the new format if the like/name row pertains to the row above or below
3. If the like functionality is available on all forums within the site. (another IB forum I use, it's not available on all forums, similar to our current OMNI issue...no likes available in the off topic areas)
Last edited by navi_jen; Oct 13, 2021 at 7:42 pm