Mastodawn

Rod Hilton Jul 5, 2023

The funniest thing about threads so far is that anyone who has been in software for a while can immediately see what happened here: they reduced scope to launch an early milestone.

There's a lot that feels very incomplete. Basic functionality missing, no web UI. The "threads" icon on web just switches between dark mode and light mode.

It's very obvious that this is unpolished, alpha-level stuff that got launched. No AP support, that's "coming soon".

They wanted to eat Musk's lunch big time.

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Nour Agha

Jul 6, 2023

@rodhilton They did openly admit that from a Verge article I just read. Basically said with what's happening at Twitter now they decided to just get it out of the door immediately and then work on the rest later.

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Rod Hilton Jul 6, 2023

@Nour yeah. 100% the right call, tons of people are signing up and amassing huge followings, which seemingly does nothing since there's no home tab.

The number of signups will motivate them to drive more eng effort and it'll probably be up to mostly-parity within 3 weeks.

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Nour Agha

@rodhilton I'm honestly very impressed by not just the timing but the design considerations they've taken and overall it's genius. No worries about getting in early and reserving handles (already reserved from IG), no need to start from zero followers (social graph already there), comes from a successful and trusted social brand (Meta) and looks and feels like a cross between Twitter and Instagram. Exactly what people wanted. Fediverse integration is the cherry on top. Ultimate Twitter killer.