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2/6/2026 • EN

Follows Not Friends

Puzzmo shifts from a 'friends' to a 'follows' social model to prioritize friend-based leaderboards and reduce competitive pressure from global rankings.

Game Mechanics Leaderboards Platform Design Social Gaming user engagement

Orta Therox

10/24/2018 • EN

Ten Platform Commandments

A developer shares ten essential principles for building and managing scalable software platforms, based on lessons from running platforms at scale.

api design observability Platform Design Platform Engineering Scalability

Charity Majors

10/30/2014 • EN

I Hope Twitter Goes Away

A critique of Twitter's design flaws, arguing its broadcast model enables harassment and discourages meaningful community and conversation.

Harassment Irc online communities Platform Design social media

Alex Gaynor

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