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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.
I'm not even getting read-only on the web, as of this morning it just redirects me to the main page which does nothing?
classic shitware
>Threads app is made Horribly.
can someone explain to me why this is a separate app and not just a view in Instagram? IG has the potential to be Meta's Wechat and this seems like it does that journey a disservice.
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Features are a looooooong second place to userbase. Hashtags mean nothing compared to having millions of users to interact with. Launching in a hurry to capitalize on the mistakes of your competitors is an amazing plan. Better to ship without the feature than to ship the wrong feature and be stuck with the tech debt. Better to launch and acquire users when possible, and slowly add the necessary parts. A far more impo…
Hahah I love the bias here. Musk ships & changes things on the fly, Twitter is going to hell. Zuck releases threads, amazing he dears to launch an MVP that fast.
The dissonance you’re pointing out is Twitter is being mocked for turning itself from incumbent to upstart when it certainly didn’t need to. It’s the stick in the spokes meme in corporate form.
Threads on the other hand is a proper upstart from a company that very much isn’t - and notably one that hasn’t shown itself particularly adept at building 0 to 1 products.
Meta is doing an uncharacteristically good job launching Threads and Twitter is doing an uncharacteristically bad job of maintaining and iterating on Twitter.
[edit] I can't help but feel like the Twitter changes are just like the Digg re-design that led to its relegation to archive.org, and if this had never happened, I seriously doubt anyone would have challenged Twitter, let alone Zucc.
Honestly threads is so minimum. A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. Only thing complicated is scale. But meta has that in place. Threads team is a corporate cushion team.
So, a solo dev cannot, in fact, pull this off.
can someone explain to me why this is a separate app and not just a view in Instagram? IG has the potential to be Meta's Wechat and this seems like it does that journey a disservice.
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.
> The Mastodon app weighs in at 1.6 MB. The official Mastodon app weighs in at 70MB on my iOS device right now. The store listing puts it at 58MB: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastodon-for-iphone-and-ipad/i...
will they do desktop apps? electronjs came to mind for that, yes it's fat but it's the only one truly cross platform now.
Not a IG, FB, Threads, Twitter user per se, just interested in what stack Meta uses to build Threads, looks like a mix of various pieces from their existing code base to me.
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The accusation that Threads is using stolen code is one of the more embarrassing accusation for Musk that he's made. Not as embarrassing for Musk as the fabricated pedophile accusations, but definitely incredibly cringe. The idea of stealing code for large distributed systems build on entirely different underlying compute architectures just shows how technologically clueless Musk is. Might as well measure productivit…