andromeda-brain

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Yeah it’s a clever hybrid but that doesn’t mean that it’s without its drawbacks. I’m not really trying to argue one way or the other, but I do think that there are tradeoffs between using a universally understood system for something this core to the product vs. a custom, albeit clever, solution.

andromeda-brain

hace 3 añosdiscuss

That’s fair, there were probably other workarounds for my use case. But there may also be other problems, different from mine, caused by the naming system (?). Playing whack-a-mole with all those problems, assuming there are more, may not have been worth it vs this major one-time friction.

Just kinda theorizing at this point; I have no stake in this fight but find the decision really interesting

andromeda-brain

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I don’t know or really understand the full process for any of that haha. I’m a super casual user. When I open the app, my only goal is to figure out how to find my username to send to my friend, accept their friend invite, and then bumble my way around the app until I’m in a voice or text chat.

I’m not their core user base. But I’m guessing that I’m the type of person they want to engage next, kind of like a warm lead

andromeda-brain

hace 3 añosdiscuss

As someone who very, very casually uses Discord, I’ve always found the naming system confusing. I don’t use it enough to care to memorize my code, and I’m dissuaded from using it because I know I’ll have to face the confusing process of finding my full name that they assigned to me (rather than the handle I use on every other network and is basically my second name). I groan when someone wants me to use Discord, and the naming system is definitely part of that.

That said, I was still really surprised to get the pop-up that they’re moving to this new system, mostly because of the obvious friction they’re creating for all of their existing users.

My intuition is that this is a move to attract users like me, at the risk of alienating some power users or the users who won’t be bothered to figure out the name change system. Can’t tell you whether it’ll work for them, but I can say that I’ll personally be slightly more likely to use the product.

andromeda-brain

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Would you be willing to share a specific property as an example?

andromeda-brain

hace 4 añosdiscuss

I just recently did a similar search, “things to do in Austin” on a bored weekend, and my go-to search platform was TikTok. I liked that the content was visual and engaging and has an authentic feel, vs my expectation that the first 100 Google results would be the same Top 10 articles of the most generic tourist traps in the city. In fact, I just did the search now and that’s exactly what I got.

andromeda-brain

hace 5 añosdiscuss

To me this story is more about the CEO's poor leadership and lack of empathy. Laying people off is something companies will have to do, and in this time of WFH companies will fumble around trying to consolidate on the best way to do it. But the CEO consoling himself in front of everyone whose lives he's upending is completely tone deaf.

It's rumored that he followed up this call with an all-hands to instill fear in the remaining employees. And he also admitted to going on a Blind tirade to shift blame for the outrage onto all of the individuals who were let go.

I would never want to work for this dude.

andromeda-brain

hace 5 añosdiscuss

There's a lot of information that is only available to MLS members. Zillow used to not have access to this information, but they slowly brokered deals with MLSes around the country to get it.

One example: The MLS in Austin, TX recently banned publicly sharing a home's sold price. https://www.zillow.com/austin-tx-78701/sold/

andromeda-brain

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I’d be more inclined to believe this if it wasn’t painfully obvious how much Z was overpaying for homes in the last half year, especially when all the other iBuyers saw the market slow down and reduced their offers accordingly. Seems much more likely that we can take them at face value and Zillow’s forecasts were just bad.

Zillow hasn’t ever bought and sold homes (until now). That’s not their business.

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