Thank you Mandy for the detailed results about this! I always wonder how some of those experiments from about:studies end.
My curiosity has been peaked:
Can I ask why the Night Mode feature was even up for removal?
Was the thinking behind that: If user adoption of Night Mode is low, we should remove it?
It seems like a useful feature & more users are admitting they don't like to be hit by blinding white pages, especially at night. Maybe all product teams are tasked with removing features or UX elements that's considered redundant or very rarely used. But I'm curious to hear from their perspective how this experiment came about. I wonder if more of the reasoning on why they wanted to remove it is listed in the experiment's description area, if you have access to that.
Sometimes it's brief & doesn't explain the why. But other times, it does:
Example detailed experiment description:
experimentType": "rollout", "source": "rs-loader", "userFacingName": "Add an Image to PDF (with Alt Text) - Rollout", "userFacingDescription": "One of the important features users need when managing their PDF files is adding an image. Users want an easy way to add an image to their PDF documents that they can easily resize and move around the document. This experiment measures the impact of launching this feature for Firefox users and if that impacts their usage in any way. Specifically, we are trying to understand the impact on Firefox Daily Active Users (DAU) as a result of launching this feature."
Sorry if I'm overthinking this. It just feels weird to me that this feature came up on the chopping block. So naturally I start to question why. :)
Thank you Mandy for the detailed results about this! I always wonder how some of those experiments from about:studies end.
My curiosity has been peaked:
Can I ask why the Night Mode feature was even up for removal?
Was the thinking behind that: If user adoption of Night Mode is low, we should remove it?
It seems like a useful feature & more users are admitting they don't like to be hit by blinding white pages, especially at night. Maybe all product teams are tasked with removing features or UX elements that's considered redundant or very rarely used. But I'm curious to hear from their perspective how this experiment came about. I wonder if more of the reasoning on why they wanted to remove it is listed in the experiment's description area, if you have access to that.
Sometimes it's brief & doesn't explain the why. But other times, it does:
Example detailed experiment description:
experimentType": "rollout", "source": "rs-loader", "userFacingName": "Add an Image to PDF (with Alt Text) - Rollout", "userFacingDescription": "One of the important features users need when managing their PDF files is adding an image. Users want an easy way to add an image to their PDF documents that they can easily resize and move around the document. This experiment measures the impact of launching this feature for Firefox users and if that impacts their usage in any way. Specifically, we are trying to understand the impact on Firefox Daily Active Users (DAU) as a result of launching this feature."
Sorry if I'm overthinking this. It just feels weird to me that this feature came up on the chopping block. So naturally I start to question why. :)
