Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
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Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
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Re: Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
#2It looks a lot like the new Twitter. I guess the new trend is just to show multiple tabs from the mobile app at once as the desktop site.
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#3Great write up. Glad to see they're making some changes as the current interface still feels like 2005 with the main feed at 500px wide. And as always, dark mode is welcome.
I really hope this helps performance on the site. In the past year or so I've been noticing that when the page sits in an unfocused tab for a while, clicking back usually takes 20+ seconds to actually load and I'm stuck at a white screen. It actually locks up the tab pretty well too, so navigating to other addresses and such takes a pretty long time.
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#4This is 100% incidental complexity. It's painful to consider that this level of sophisticated engineering is needed to render a website quickly in 2020. What went wrong?
I'm personally excited about things like turbolinks and phoenix liveview, which may provide a path out of this mess.
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#5I have been using Facebook for like +10years. Facebook used to be reference for speed and usability.
I left it ~4 years ago.
Last day I entered again for curiosity. It's so sad. Strange interface, slow, unresponsive. It's sad.
Re: Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
#6Great write up. Glad to see they're making some changes as the current interface still feels like 2005 with the main feed at 500px wide. And as always, dark mode is welcome. I really hope this helps performance on the site. In the past year or so I've been noticing that when the page sits in an unfocused tab for a while, clicking back usually takes 20+ seconds to actually load and I'm stuck at a white screen. It actu…
> And as always, dark mode is welcome.
I don't get this infatuation with dark mode, beyond it looking cool. People claim it helps with eye strain, but a brighter background constricts your pupils, improving focus.
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#8Everything is in the past tense without dates. When was this massive re-write? 2010? 2018?
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#9I have been using Facebook for like +10years. Facebook used to be reference for speed and usability. I left it ~4 years ago. Last day I entered again for curiosity. It's so sad. Strange interface, slow, unresponsive. It's sad.
Did you try the new UI? It's a lot better but you may have to opt in
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#10This is 100% incidental complexity. It's painful to consider that this level of sophisticated engineering is needed to render a website quickly in 2020. What went wrong? I'm personally excited about things like turbolinks and phoenix liveview, which may provide a path out of this mess.
...but it's not a website. It doesn't list 10 cars, 1 family photo and the address on the footer.