No link yet as I'm still just a solo dev, the (hobbish?) project is crawling very slowly, but I have the general architecture in mind. I need to get the frontend first.
I tried to submit it as a startup project last year but the feedback isn't great, I want to have something polished first before making it public
I think it's a bad example because this should not be the way to develop in this kind (microservices) of systems.
In these environments you atomically create objects in your application's "local" storage and have a reconciliation loop for creating objects in other services or deleting these orphan "local" objects.
It finally went away. I'm hoping the same for all counters because from a reader's perspective they are pointless. so I have only positive feelings about this :).
On the one hand, it is a decent way to show readers how popular a post is and maybe feel more encouraged to share. On the other, now that I don't receive that count portion of the service, keeping the button installed means Twitter gets to still track my users.
People do use the buttons though to share. Before I added a LinkedIn button I received a number of emails from people asking for one so they could more easily share links.
I may just remove it though because when Facebook and LinkedIn have a good amount of shares or likes, it looks strange to have a button with no shares.
People don't trust themselves as much as we should, which is why people are more likely to share something if it looks like it is "safe" to do - if others are doing it. I agree though that it would be better that if people shared something because they were compelled enough to do it on their own.
I find value in the popularity of a comment because it gives me some insight to how a community thinks, collectively.
I've observed a number of times that the most popular web sites and the most popular news sites (as ranked by web traffic) are the most controversial (eg. sexist) and least informative. Hence, trusting the average person is like trusting populist politics.. The Kardadhians rule. Aka race to the bottom, aka McDonalds journalism.
That type of thinking may not be able to pool together as easily then, and therefore that thinking may not be reenforced as much.
And I agree, it is interesting to see it - and obviously Twitter would have that data, so they could make it available to researchers as well. On a daily basis I wonder how it impacts everything.
