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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.
But then they don't have permissions to slurp up all of your contacts, watch all of your SMS, and listen to your microphone...
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.
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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Is this incompetence or aggressive data mining? I fail to see how a texting client is that complicated...
Consider two competing apps. One looks 5% nicer but uses 1000% more memory, cpu and battery. That one will be preferred by users. And this is why things are how they are.
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Is this incompetence or aggressive data mining? I fail to see how a texting client is that complicated...
Have you seen how much memory and CPU time Signal uses on the Desktop? Or Slack? The era of running a chat app for almost no resources is gone unless you're an IRC holdout.
Aren't those using Electron?
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Have you seen how much memory and CPU time Signal uses on the Desktop? Or Slack? The era of running a chat app for almost no resources is gone unless you're an IRC holdout.
> Have you seen how much memory and CPU time Signal uses on the Desktop? Or Slack? Aren't those using Electron?
Not sure how much impact this will have, most of the people I know and have discussed this with fall into two camps: people who use FB a lot an will put up with a bad mobile client, and people who don't want FB on their phone, ever. I have to go years back to think of someone who told me they just couldn't take the bad UX of the clients so they deleted it.
Like I've heard from peace corps folk about how a large part of the third world thinks of messenger as "the internet", which is absolutely terrifying.
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But then they don't have permissions to slurp up all of your contacts, watch all of your SMS, and listen to your microphone...
I really wish iOS would allow you to select which contacts/photo album to give an app access to, instead of all hundreds/thousands of them.
From: https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/ > We accomplished this by using the native OS wherever possible Does this mean this application does not use React Native?
From: https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/ > We accomplished this by using the native OS wherever possible Does this mean this application does not use React Native?
It would seem that way.