Root and then branches. Ever since books happened, we categorize and navigate information through the same system. Dictionaries follow this rule: letter B, the root. Words starting with B, branches.<\/p>\n
During the days of the command line, computers used a tree representation for things. As a kid, it was easy to understand: up and down branches where my stuff is, the root where operating system files were.<\/p>\n
Then GUI happened. At first not really a big change, just a graphic tree. But then, shortcuts. Most people still don\u2019t get where their stuff is because of that mapping shit that confuses them.<\/p>\n
Then the internet happened. It followed the tree rule too: tree.com\/branches. BUT. For some fucking weird reason, engineers thought that it would be super cool to have something that means the exact same but completely destroys the consistency: branches.tree.com<\/p>\n
They allowed the branch to be \u201cunder\u201d the root so that people really don\u2019t get confused\u2026<\/p>\n
in the same vein: websites end with a dot whatever, right? Nope! Let\u2019s have .co.uk and .or.jp (yeah in Japan .org are .or), let\u2019s have weird exceptions to help people out! Medium introduced another stupid thing: instead of having medium.com\/user they have a medium.com\/@user because fuck your face that\u2019s why. Fuck that website.<\/p>\n
In the end, those design decisions mess up a consistent system that we all knew, for no other reason than we can mess up something that worked fine. And subdomain.domain will never not sound weird or fishy.<\/p>\n
And so of course people stay on Facebook. Engineers, you suck at design consistency. But more importantly, you drive people away from independence. You foster their weaknesses with your decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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