Monthly user churn is a terrible metric 🔻
The monthly user churn metric masks fundamental problems with product growth.
It’s tempting for companies, especially smaller start-ups that are under-resourced in analytics, to measure user base growth from a macro perspective. Through this lens, it’s fairly easy to observe if a product is growing or not: is the number of new users added to the product each month greater than the number that churn? If so, then MAU should theoretically be increasing and the product is officially growing.
This sounds straightforward, but it hides a number of complexities that could end up handicapping the product team at some point.
Time To Read: 10 Minutes
Published: November 2018
Link: Monthly user churn is a terrible metric 🔻
Google Docs is getting a new feature that will make it easier to show code in an easy-to-understand way. The company announced that it’s adding code blocks to its “smart canvas” system, which will automatically add the proper spacing and color-coding for a variety of programming languages, such as Python, C, and Javascript.
Before this, getting code to look nice in Google Docs required workarounds or add-ons, which weren’t necessarily the most convenient. While that wasn’t the end of the world, making sure code displays properly is important for documentation, and having different parts of the code display in different colors makes it much easier to read if there’s more than a single line or two.
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