Orkut getting the loops wrong

Jan 10 2008

Orkut is famous for the never ending list of bugs in it. Users have even spotted bugs that can be exploited to view locked private albums. Today while browsing through a forum, I spotted this*:

orkut1

As you can see, the forum shows messages 1-10 of 10. This means that there are no further messages. But the next link is active!!! What for?

This is just a case of not applying thought to the development of the product. Adding more features, bells and whistles and then more, you forget to get the usability right. If you have millions of users, who cares to fix these small bugs? You will be working on the ads. Won’t you?

As if it weren’t bug enough, I found something more when I clicked the next link just out of curiosity:

orkut2

Yes. 11-10 of 10. Clearly, someone got his loop wrong.

*I have squeezed images parts to show the relevant portions.

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3 responses so far

  1. # Bipin Upadhyayon 11 Jan 2008 at 12:06 am

    haha
    Looks like Google is bad with pagination. Look for the Google section of this post :)

  2. # Mani Karthikon 31 Jan 2008 at 2:47 am

    Hey Niyaz,

    That’s a very good find.

  3. # Nirmalon 08 Feb 2008 at 3:12 am

    I found these types of errors in my orkut also.

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