Remove Vanity Metrics

Hide # of favorites, RTs and followers from your feed 🙏

3 followers

Hide # of favorites, RTs and followers from your feed 🙏

3 followers

Hides the number of favorites, likes, and followers from your feed so you can focus on the content. Download this Chrome extension to experience raw social media.

Launch tags:Web App•Chrome Extensions•Productivity

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I love the idea - though I notice it doesn't seem to work with Facebook or LinkedIn yet, is it currently just for Twitter?

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8yr ago

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Maker

@lvturner Just for Twitter right now! Would you be interested in other platforms too :) ?

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8yr ago

@jrdngonen 100%

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8yr ago

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Maker

@lvturner Awesome! Will be sure to explore that and get back to you :)

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8yr ago

@lvturner I have developed a Facebook Demetricator since 2012, which hides all the metrics on Facebook. (This was my original Demetricator, preceding the one I wrote for Twitter and later Instagram). I haven't done one for LinkedIn Twitter: https://bengrosser.com/projects/... Facebook: https://bengrosser.com/projects/...

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8yr ago

@bengrosser Thanks!

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8yr ago

Product Hunt

I appreciate the purpose but I think everyone wants to see those metrics and they do help (visually) filter through the signal vs. noise.

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8yr ago

@rrhoover Sometimes they're just a result of clout.

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8yr ago

Osaurus

@rrhoover yeah but what if Twitter just removes the Like button altogether?

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8yr ago

@rrhoover why generalize? Seems like there is pretty explicit consumer-request..

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8yr ago

@rrhoover I think they're helpful when you're posting, but not when you're reading. Social proof adds zero to your capability to think and judge the value of something on its own merit rather than based on confirmation bias.

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8yr ago

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Maker

Hey PH! & @kanyewest Darshil, Maas, and I quickly put together this chrome extension... It hides the number of favorites, likes, and followers from your feed so you can focus on "just the content." Using it is an interesting reminder of how influential social metrics are in our decision making and how we think of others. Let us know what you think! :)

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8yr ago

@kanyewest @jrdngonen Show out to @bengrosser who has been doing this for a decade.

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8yr ago

Quoter

@kanyewest @jrdngonen Good work on launching this guys! 😍 I made the exact same extension earlier this year, only to get 4 upvotes... man! https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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8yr ago

June

In today's environment, sometimes it's great to dismiss all the "clout" social stats give people... great product guys!

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8yr ago

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Maker

@ftxrc Thanks for the support!! Agreed!

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8yr ago

In a world where it's all about likes, RTs and favs, where teens remove their last Instagram photo if it doesn't get enough likes, products like Remove Vanity Metrics are a step forward in focusing on content only. I love Kanye West's idea behind the product and would love to see an Instagram version 🙌 Great job @jrdngonen @darshilpatel53 and @maaslalaniii 👏

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Maker

@darshilpatel53 @maaslalaniii @mrcalexandre thanks for the support!

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8yr ago

@jrdngonen @darshilpatel53 @maaslalaniii @mrcalexandre Just as I wrote a Demetricator (my term for code that hides social metrics) for Twitter early this year, I have one for Instagram, and one for Facebook. Twitter: https://bengrosser.com/projects/... Facebook: https://bengrosser.com/projects/... Instagram: https://bengrosser.com/projects/...

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8yr ago

Tab Manager Plus for Chrome

It's nice. Might want to get rid of the buttons altogether ( or unless hovered ). And I'd keep some kind of indicator if there are actually replies. Doesn't have to be the number, just if there's any replies at all

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8yr ago

@mastef my Twitter Demetricator, which has been out since February, inserts small non-metric indicators when there are replies/retweets/likes http://bengrosser.com/projects/t...

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8yr ago

Great! I wrote about this earlier this year and had someone code my own little extension that does this on Twitter, FB, Medium, Quora, and Youtube because I was so sick of these metrics. I hope you will add these platforms in the future, it's about time someone professionalized this. Here's what I wrote and how mine worked: https://medium.com/@ngoeke/how-t...

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8yr ago

@ngoeke @niklasgoeke hi niklas, never saw this thx for the link. thought you might be interested in this article I wrote about the broad effects of metrics: http://computationalculture.net/...

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8yr ago

@ngoeke @bengrosser This is great, thank you! I'm not tackling it as scientifically as you are, but I agree with you in every way and the Demetricator is a great piece of software. Will follow you on Twitter!

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