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As someone who doesn't participate in memes, uploads a fair number of photos, and has been consistently on Facebook since 2006, my Lookback video was actually pretty awesome. The music matched the flow of the content, and even the mood of the content. I like this. Good job, Facebook team.
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Unless you are like me and self-delete posts after a day or two. Then you get a picture of your cover photo and profile pic plus the message "Thank you, [name] 10 years ago people started using Facebook to connect with each other in a new way. Thanks for being a part of it. Mark and the Facebook team"
That's exactly what you want, right?
How are they rendering these so quickly? There was no noticeable delay in the page load. The HD version is a 4.15MB mp4, with 1.19billion active monthly users that's 4.939PB of video to prerender. I thought perhaps they were rendering it either in the browser and passing a bytestream to the SWF (they're not), or starting the render on the server and streaming it down before it completed (unlikely as the video is coming from akamai). Anyone know?
Does anyone have any information regarding the logistics of rendering 800+ million videos like this for each user on Facebook? I'm pretty sure it's not rendered on the fly.
I'm part of the team that built this which came from different parts of FB. I think we'll be getting some much needed rest after today, then I hope we can start telling the story of how we built it.
Wow. I found this rather poignant. I've been on Facebook for 6 years, and it struck me that most of the events it picked out were closer to the start of those 6 years than the present.
I don't see anything but a message thanking me. Even on mobile, no video whatsoever. Why's that?
Unlike others in the thread who delete everything they put on facebook, I do not.