It would be ironic if the clone was less buggy than the original in this case.
My experience with Pinterest was so frustrating. At times it seemed there were more bugs than working features. Beta? Sure, you don't have to check if, e.g. the notification board - the main "social" feature of your web site - works at all if you are in beta. And sure, you don't have to respond to suggestions and bug reports from your users.
On top of the myriad of glitches I discovered while using it, I eventually deleted my account at Pinterest, only to discover a few months later, that my boards still exist, people repin stuff and I receive notifications by email, even though my profile and the possibility to switch notifications off don't exist anymore.
Never seen a web service so beautifully designed and so terribly buggy at the same time.
Dear startups, can you please hire competent developers who feel responsible for what they roll out to the production servers?
The biggest issues I ran into (when creating a pinboard of graphic Tee designs I like) were likely due to poorly-handled replication. I'd create a pin, and it would redirect me to a page that would immediately 404. If I refreshed, it would sometimes render the thing I posted, and sometimes 404. Furthermore, any changes I made to pins would come and go, and I'd have to resubmit the form several times before it would persist. This wasn't fixed over the course of the several weeks during which I added pins.
It's a real tribute to the wonderfully crisp design that I actually stuck around to deal with all of that crap. Honestly, if it weren't for the design, I would have rolled my own shitty clone using some Rails bootstraps and the paperclip gem. (I just wanted to show my friends some graphic tee designs!)
My experience with Pinterest was so frustrating. At times it seemed there were more bugs than working features. Beta? Sure, you don't have to check if, e.g. the notification board - the main "social" feature of your web site - works at all if you are in beta. And sure, you don't have to respond to suggestions and bug reports from your users.
On top of the myriad of glitches I discovered while using it, I eventually deleted my account at Pinterest, only to discover a few months later, that my boards still exist, people repin stuff and I receive notifications by email, even though my profile and the possibility to switch notifications off don't exist anymore.
Never seen a web service so beautifully designed and so terribly buggy at the same time.
Dear startups, can you please hire competent developers who feel responsible for what they roll out to the production servers?