scientifik
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
Link to Cliff's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
You add profiles from Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube and Narro pulls in the posts.
It's a bummer because they had so much potential to dethrone GitHub a few years ago but really missed the opportunity to position themselves as a viable alternative. That said I still use gitlab.com for my personal projects over anything owned by Microsoft.
You enter the profiles you want to follow from Instagram, TikTok, x, etc.. and the app only shows posts from those profiles.
There's no algorithm, ads or infinite scroll, so when you've seen all the new posts, that's the end of the feed. It provides a natural stopping point for your scrolling.
Funny enough the audience was made up of his contemporaries but were completely computer-illiterate. He wanted to discuss heady topics but the Q&A was mostly people asking him to explain Linux (How can it be free? Who owns it?) I could tell he was a bit annoyed to have to get so basic with his audience but I think he kind of somewhat enjoyed sharing a new concept with them.
The "new" idea we are working on is a feed that ends. Every mainstream app is engineered with infinite scroll. Narro is finite by design. You open it, you see what the people you follow actually posted, you reach the end, and you're done.
Then the next time you open the app you're still only getting new content from the profiles you followed. It ends up creating a totally different user habit.
Now off to find the easiest way to translate the video.