Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
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Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
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Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#2An option if you'd like to try this yourself, at home:
https://shuhaowu.com/blog/network_emulation_on_your_router.h...
(Previously on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224547 )
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#3They should also try using older/slower phones that are representative of those areas. I remember that I had an LG L7 which was barely usable at all even freshly reset.
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#4In unrelated news, Facebook employees have begun to organize "Work from home Tuesdays".
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#5In unrelated news, Facebook employees have begun to organize "Work from home Tuesdays".
They're smart about it:
> When a Facebook employee logs into the app any Tuesday morning, they'll see a prompt at the top of their News Feed asking whether they want to try out the slower connection for an hour.
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#6I'd be shocked if I learned they didn't steal this idea from Google.
Not sure why downvoted. Google has had hobbled networks like this for a long time, for exactly the same reason.
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#7This would help me too, as a first-worlder: I often use T-mobile's free global data roaming, which is super-nice to have, but capped to 2G speeds (128kbps). It becomes quite clear that some sites' designers have never tested their functionality at 128kbps...
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#8This is why I am perfectly happy with our team's local Vagrant development boxes being quite sluggish - the visible lag has surfaced a few timing and UX bugs already. It's important to feel the customer pain as your own.
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#9Wonderful! - but it seems a tad late. :) Even the poorest parts of India should be about to move to 3G (or even 4G) within the next few years due to the more efficient usage of spectrum. Of course it would be insanely overloaded with lots of delayed packets...
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#10I believe this will have a positive effect in the U.S. as well. For whatever reason, I get 1 bar of service at the office if I'm lucky. The Facebook app is frustrating to use under those circumstances. On the contrary, Twitter is actually not that bad. I've been impressed with it under bad network situations. Consequently, I find myself opening up Twitter a lot more than Facebook during breaks.