Everyone finds out about the change when they see a screenshot with three hundred comments trying to understand what the change is about. However, by the time anyone tries to explain anything, the time has passed, and no one cares about the issue anymore. The aim of Social Bites is to help those who do care about the change understand what was changed and what the actual consequences of that are.
It appears quite simple. In practice, it turns out to be much slower than it looks, due to the fact that most systems do not allow it to happen easily. In addition to the fact that while changelog shows changes hidden behind three cosmetic ones, a company introduces some feature worldwide before it is introduced anywhere else but the native country of that company, half of the explanations that come out during the week end up explaining features that have not even been launched yet to the majority of people. Due to the fact that the launch happens gradually, two people looking at the same update will end up seeing completely different stuff, nobody ever bothering to clarify the issue. The documentation gets updated without the mentioning of this action in the changelog whatsoever, so sometimes the only thing that one can find out about the change is the change itself.
Better late but right for us. All guides that we have posted on our website are always checked with some source from the platform itself – it may be a help page, developer’s changelog, or anything else in an official statement. In case of something like that, our guide is being corrected according to the source mentioned. But in rare situations when it comes to interpreting the information from the lines, we openly state that, not calling this interpretation a fact.
It is the same reason why we have so few guides written yet. It is a small team of people making a list of guides deliberately; it is the number of pages that may be trusted, not a huge number of pages written after an update of the platform’s policies. For those who have read too many “Ultimate guides” including 1000 unnecessary words around one necessary sentence, such a method of writing is rather logical.
And that’s what you will be able to see on this site after its completion: explanations of certain things, their meanings, and comparison between different platforms, which are being joined in one but which actually have differences; in some cases there can even be analysis of changes made in some platform and the reasons for those differences.
If you came looking for something specific and it’s not here yet, that’s useful to know rather than a dead end — tell us what you were looking for, and it moves up the list of what we write next. If you’d rather understand the whole approach before trusting any of it, the About page goes into more detail on how we decide what to cover and how we check it before it’s published.