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I wonder: did that company have to release some statement to the users? and if so how did they explain it lol
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Glad you work on your own hugely loved project now..
And you can decide what to implement.
devRant as a dating app.. hmmm xD -
DevRant is so yesterday... DevDate is where all the action is now! High five!... Anyone?... No?
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dfox428277y@JoshBent no statement, just quickly removed it and pretended it didn’t happen haha. Company didn’t have the best ethics which is the case for most dating websites.
@BambuSource you can say that again! The dating industry really isn’t fun. I enjoy my work on devRant much more and working full time at Adobe is great.
@Jonnyforgotten we did a lot of crazy things :) And we made sure it worked, I think no one was able to anticipate the kind of content that would show up.
@PrivateGER surprise!! -
@dfox fine
Glad you work on your own hugely loved project now.. and you can decide what to implement.
Sorry xD -
I'm wondering if you selected this question for this week just to be able to tell us this story.
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This happened at my previous job where I worked for a dating app. It was at a time where the CEO was trying to turn the dating app into “more than a dating app” by adding tons of social features. We always had “interests” which allowed users to see what interests they had in common with another person, but he wanted to take the social component even further.
So with that, he decided we needed an “activity feed.” The activity feed would show what various Facebook connected users were liking on Facebook, posting on Facebook, etc. On a dating app. Where the majority of the audience was > 50 years old. The idea was absolutely ridiculous and everyone but the CEO knew it was destined for failure before we started building it.
But that’s not the best part. The best part was when we launched the activity feed component. We launched it late on day and went home shortly after. The next morning, we came in, and checked on the activity feed to see what was doing. It was literally all spammers liking porn/sex related stuff on Facebook. It was a complete disaster. All garbage but not just boring garbage - completely obscene garbage.
And just like that, the activity feature came and went in the course of a few days.
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activity feed
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terrible idea