Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?
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Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?
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#3Why does the web page presenting this complaint take 140 requests to serve and transfer 10Mb?
Same reasons - bloat over time, developers with powerful machines and network connections who don't notice the impact, users with huge devices that don't care about 500M space for an app and management and corporate culture that don't care much about optimisation.
Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?
#4Related: (19 days ago) Leaving LinkedIn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612443
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#5From the reply
>300 MB for just dynamically linked frameworks & Plugins is...a lot. In fact, just the Dylibs & Plugins today are bigger than the entire app was back in November 2022
>Here's something else that jumps out - in March 2023, the TodayExtension was >Seeing as Today Extensions have been deprecated, its doubtful that they added THAT much functionality to them
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#6From the reply >300 MB for just dynamically linked frameworks & Plugins is...a lot. In fact, just the Dylibs & Plugins today are bigger than the entire app was back in November 2022 >Here's something else that jumps out - in March 2023, the TodayExtension was >Seeing as Today Extensions have been deprecated, its doubtful that they added THAT much functionality to them
This is what you get from so called "quality full $200k software engineer"
Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?
#7Here's a detailed answer (using ThreadReader so no Twitter login necessary): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1772350918534582525.html
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#8Here's a detailed answer (using ThreadReader so no Twitter login necessary): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1772350918534582525.html
Ok, we'll change the link to that from https://twitter.com/t3dotgg/status/1772328210900074786 above.
Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?
#9TIL there is a Linkedin app.
For me the question is why anyone would even consider installing it.
The other is easy: It's Microsoft,
Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?
#10Why does the web page presenting this complaint take 140 requests to serve and transfer 10Mb? Same reasons - bloat over time, developers with powerful machines and network connections who don't notice the impact, users with huge devices that don't care about 500M space for an app and management and corporate culture that don't care much about optimisation.
Uber actually had a pretty reasonable explanation for their app being huge when their rather large app size made the rounds several years ago. Turns out localization takes a lot of space. I wonder how much of LinkedIn’s insane size can be attributed to that vs just lazy coding