On 2 September 2015 at 01:50, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just in time! >> http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/death-to-app-install-interstitials/ > > > Interstitials are full-page ads where you have to click a link to get to > the actual content. These are normal banners. > More importantly, as you can see in the Phabricator task, they are an > experiment to measure if it is possible to make more people use the app. > Experiments are good. For one thing, they can turn out negative, in which > case we will have been spared a philosophical debate about openness.
Is this experiment also measuring what those users do on the app, versus what the same users (or a users with a similar background) did on the mobile web? Is it a formal A/B test? We seem to be operating under the belief that merely switching users is, in and of itself, a victory. It's not; we still have the same number of users at the end. A victory is increased activity /due/ to the features on the app that cannot be created outside that closed ecosystem. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
