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What is 'coombait'?
Porn adjacent material. Technically SFW usually but not the kind of thing you want your coworkers seeing you look at.
I usually watch and like comedians when I am mindlessly scrolling.
72 MB is egregious for a Twitter-clone MVP. For comparison, the full-featured Twitter app itself is 40 MB. The Mastodon app weighs in at 1.6 MB.
I'm a little disappointed they didn't go purely React Native here. It would have been a great showcase as they ultimately own the React Native project.
Are they using on-device ML? Why?
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Ah yes, very different from the core Twitter userbase. /s
72 MB is egregious for a Twitter-clone MVP. For comparison, the full-featured Twitter app itself is 40 MB. The Mastodon app weighs in at 1.6 MB.
Nobody cares.
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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).
Twitter has 450 million monthly active users at a generous guess.
Facebook's MAU: 2.98 billion
Instagram's MAU: 1 billion
Twitter, is an (un)surprisingly small fry when it comes to social networks.
Unlike most, Facebook actually knows how to build a social network, and grow it.
72 MB is egregious for a Twitter-clone MVP. For comparison, the full-featured Twitter app itself is 40 MB. The Mastodon app weighs in at 1.6 MB.
This didn't stop 70M+ users from downloading the app and using it. Nobody cares.
They say things like "my internet cap is reached", "my battery is drained faster", "my phone is slow" and a million other things that oblivious and clueless programmers don't hear because they can only hear when someone talks about megabytes, cpu cycles, RAM etc.
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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…
So, like every other first version of a software or hardware release, from Facebook to the iPhone?
> never a good plan.
Sure, the history of those decisions is littered with tech-debt-ridden corpses, but likewise is also how every success starts it's way.
It might not be a good plan for employee work-life balance, but in a tech recession where noone is hiring, it's a GREAT plan.
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This didn't stop 70M+ users from downloading the app and using it. Nobody cares.
People care. You just refuse to listen to what they say. They say things like "my internet cap is reached", "my battery is drained faster", "my phone is slow" and a million other things that oblivious and clueless programmers don't hear because they can only hear when someone talks about megabytes, cpu cycles, RAM etc.
"The customer is always right in matters of taste."