LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app

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Post by moneil971 » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 5:23 PM UTC

LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
engineering.fb.com

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Post by listsfrin » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

Too little and too late. I feel like they lost a whole generation of people.

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Post by jandrese » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:32 PM UTC

This seems like an incredibly low bar to hurdle. FB Messenger on iOS is legendarily bloated. In the couple of weeks I had it installed it also managed to be the biggest battery drain on my phone, even more than some 3D games.

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Post by ronald_dregan » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

Yea, but it's still Facebook Messenger, so it's trash.

If you use Facebook for any reason, you are stupid and I do not respect you.

Fuck Facebook, fuck everybody who works for them in any capacity (to the HN people who work there - re-evaluate your life choices, scumbags), fuck everybody who uses their products and services. You are all objectively contributing to the world being a worse place.

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Post by Doctor_Fegg » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:35 PM UTC

Here's a way in which they can save 100% of the size: Stop stubbornly barring mobile clients from using the web interface. This is why I don't use Facebook Messenger at all.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:36 PM UTC

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Post by monocasa » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:37 PM UTC

Considering that they were shipping 18,000 classes in their iOS app back in 2015, a quarter the size of their 2019 app has to be still unreasonably massive.

https://gist.github.com/quellish/473f513fbd1310233a8e

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Post by beatgammit » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:37 PM UTC

jandrese wrote: post #3

This seems like an incredibly low bar to hurdle. FB Messenger on iOS is legendarily bloated. In the couple of weeks I had it installed it also managed to be the biggest battery drain on my phone, even more than some 3D games.

Is this incompetence or aggressive data mining? I fail to see how a texting client is that complicated...

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Post by wilkystyle » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:37 PM UTC

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #5

Here's a way in which they can save 100% of the size: Stop stubbornly barring mobile clients from using the web interface. This is why I don't use Facebook Messenger at all.

If I request the desktop site, I am able to access Messenger (iOS, Safari)

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Post by skizm » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:39 PM UTC

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #5

Here's a way in which they can save 100% of the size: Stop stubbornly barring mobile clients from using the web interface. This is why I don't use Facebook Messenger at all.

mbasic.facebook.com