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Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by Freedom2 »

hospitalJail wrote: post #12
wbobeirne wrote: post #4

Have there been any public plans for a fully featured web app? Having it be read-only on the web is a non-starter for me.

Facebook isnt going to be nice about this. They know they are in a strong position here. Expect an addicting algorithm that is fueled by ragebait (and if its anything like IG, coombait). The fact that it didn't release with an ability to time-sort tells you everything you need to know. Everyone knows how easy it is to sort by time, especially when stakes are low. Its anti-consumer from day 1. The surge in people are…

What is 'coombait'?

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by whiskeytuesday »

Freedom2 wrote: post #21
hospitalJail wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook isnt going to be nice about this. They know they are in a strong position here. Expect an addicting algorithm that is fueled by ragebait (and if its anything like IG, coombait). The fact that it didn't release with an ability to time-sort tells you everything you need to know. Everyone knows how easy it is to sort by time, especially when stakes are low. Its anti-consumer from day 1. The surge in people are…

What is 'coombait'?

What we used to call softcore pornography

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by the_lonely_road »

Freedom2 wrote: post #21
hospitalJail wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook isnt going to be nice about this. They know they are in a strong position here. Expect an addicting algorithm that is fueled by ragebait (and if its anything like IG, coombait). The fact that it didn't release with an ability to time-sort tells you everything you need to know. Everyone knows how easy it is to sort by time, especially when stakes are low. Its anti-consumer from day 1. The surge in people are…

What is 'coombait'?

Porn adjacent material. Technically SFW usually but not the kind of thing you want your coworkers seeing you look at.

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by standardUser »

hospitalJail wrote: post #12
wbobeirne wrote: post #4

Have there been any public plans for a fully featured web app? Having it be read-only on the web is a non-starter for me.

Facebook isnt going to be nice about this. They know they are in a strong position here. Expect an addicting algorithm that is fueled by ragebait (and if its anything like IG, coombait). The fact that it didn't release with an ability to time-sort tells you everything you need to know. Everyone knows how easy it is to sort by time, especially when stakes are low. Its anti-consumer from day 1. The surge in people are…

A strong position? They are going head-to-head with one of the largest social networks and their odds are... OK at best. They have every incentive to make their new service as desirable and accessible as possible (until such time they are too big for people to leave and then they can do whatever they want).

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by gravitronic »

moffkalast wrote: post #17
gravitronic wrote: post #3

Any clues to what percentage is made with react native? https://www.threads.net/t/CuW_fXZOgPc/ would suggest to me the answer is "not much"

Ah, so even the makers of React are not dogfooding it anymore. Sounds about right.

s/React/React Native/

Pretty sure they're using it on web everywhere and IMHO that's a decent choice when you need state management / DOM updates.

React Native is a whole other ball of mud, taking UI decisions out of the main thread where phones want them to be and delegating them into a bolted on javascript environment.

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by jonny_eh »

wbobeirne wrote: post #4

Have there been any public plans for a fully featured web app? Having it be read-only on the web is a non-starter for me.

https://www.instagram.com/ is a thing, so I imagine it's just a matter of time. I can't disagree with their choice of releasing for mobile first in 2023 though.

Re: How the new Threads app is made

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Post by coldcode »

arcticbull wrote: post #11
maxptop wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would be surprised if this extension doesn't shrink in a subsequent release

Almost certainly just a dependency graph pruning issue. They likely pulled in too much of the main app into the plugin, which no longer has the strict sizing requirements that it used to. They'll trim it over the next couple of releases and the binary size shrink will look good on someone's performance review. Any kind of quantifiable changes like this counts as solid impact, heh, even if it has no real impact on usa…

They are missing substantial features like hashtags and follows, leaving you at their mercy to show you content. That would imply it's just a WIP shipped to nearly 100M people. It's doubtful it will ever shrink, given how much is missing, unless it's in there but not production quality. My guess is they shipped it in a hurry, and now there is enormous pressure on them to add all the missing features quickly, never a good plan.
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