Yup, they finally did it. Same thing they did to FB to get me to leave is now leading me to leave one of the apps I really loved to use when it first came out.
I shut off the App platform on my account a few months ago and never looked back. The impact to my user experience has been basically zero, but I feel like I'm much less likely to have my data taken advantage of.
I really disliked the negativity and I know many others who agreed and also deleted the app. It just wasn't worth it. I'm not at all surprised they are struggling.
Yep. I think I actually mentioned it in an e-mail to you when you owned it. It's ok though, I'm about to uninstall the app as everyone in the house has grown up enough to deal with their own issues :).
I went cold turkey on it when I bought a new phone. “Just don’t install it for one week, see how it goes”.
That was months ago. There was fomo at the beginning, but now I have one attention sinkhole less in my mind, less drama and outrage in my life.
If I ever get back to it, it’ll be in write-only mode
Wow! Probably would have done this had I known earlier, but at this point I feel like if I lock myself in to their platform they'll eventually get rid of this option completely at which point I'd have to find an alternative anyways.
Quit the app as a user. It wasn't a platform thing, in terms of technical aspects although there is probably something to be said about how it shapes community, but it was the community itself.
It’s been one less since their app started spamming my phone with notifications a few months ago. I suspect those kinds of engagement hooks are part of the reason they have been pushing the app so hard, but I got so tired of it that I uninstalled it from my phone. Fortunately they’ve also made the mobile/web experience so horrible that I’m not even tempted to wade back in. I had been a daily user for more than 10 years until that point.
I was not planning to do that, and I don't wish that they force me to do that.
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