People become aware of the changes as they look at a screen shot where there are three hundred comments trying to figure out the reason behind the change. Nevertheless, before they can get any explanation, the time is over and people do not care about it anymore. The goal of Social Bites is to assist those who actually care about the changes to understand the real consequences of it.
At first sight, it seems pretty easy. In reality, however, it is much slower, because the process is not allowed to work in such an elegant manner in most cases. Not only the fact that while there are three cosmetic updates in the changelog, there are actually four updates going on, one of which hides the rest three behind it, but also the fact that a company introduces some new feature globally before introducing it to other countries besides the native one of that company makes almost half of the explanations produced by the end of the week devoted to that update irrelevant, since those features have not been launched at all for the vast majority of users. Because of gradual launching, two people watching the same update will see two completely different things, and no one will take the trouble of clarification.
Better late but right for us. All guides that we have put up on our site are always verified with the help of some source from the platform itself – it may be a help page, developer’s changelog, or any other official statement. In such a situation, the guide gets adjusted according to the mentioned source. However, there are also cases when the information from the lines needs to be interpreted. In such a case, we clearly say so and do not claim that it is a fact.
This is also the same reason why we have only few guides published now. There is only a small number of people composing the list of guides intentionally; there are just a few pages which can be trusted, not hundreds of pages written after a change in the policy of the platform. For those who have read too many “Ultimate guides” containing 1000 useless words before a single one which is needed, it looks quite logical.
And this is what you will see on this website once it is completed: the explanation of certain things and their meaning as well as the comparison between the platforms which are being unified yet differ from each other; sometimes, the analysis of changes introduced to one particular platform may be performed as well.
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.