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Facebook

by makbol 9y ago

Facebook

mabbo 9y ago
Really? How so? The page loads fairly quickly for me, and the design is highly optimized. Not optimized for users, mind you, but optimized for profitability. If you don't like Facebook, that's one thing but it's hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed.
- cryptoz 9y ago
  > Not optimized for users It's slow and buggy and awful to use on most Android phones for most of history. It sucks the CPU and battery while you're not using it and slows your whole phone down. > hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed. No it's completely fair and totally true. The Facebook apps are really badly designed and so are the websites.
  - mabbo 9y ago
    Ah maybe that's what I'm missing- I don't use their app. The mobile website mostly works well for me. They removed messaging from it because they're jerks, but you can switch the desktop mode and it works.
    - cryptoz 9y ago
      > They removed messaging from it because they're jerks That's another case of bad design. Intentionally making the webapp worse for you by removing perfectly good features so they can extract more $/user on average. They make lots of money and the make very poorly designed and user hostile software.
- intellent 9y ago
  The Desktop browser version of Facebook is slow af. It almost feels like they are loading every single HTML element with yet another API request.
saiya-jin 9y ago
Definitely this one. Buggy as hell for simple workflows of uploading pics, on mobile version (web, hell will freeze before I will again install any of their apps in my phone) chat/messenger gets added/removed randomly so I can/can't respond to messages. I did accept their initial scaling issues/crashes/broken functionality in say 2005-2008, but this web is unbelievably shitty even in 2018. 'Feature' of these days - when I find finally something interesting and worth commenting on, often clicking on Comment reloads whole part of the feed with the article never to be seen again, ever. Sometimes this happens also while just scrolling down, unbelievably frustrating. Unless I manually go to feed of given user. What an utter failure for such a highly valued company with basically 1 single product. They need proper competition, we users would only benefit from this. Too bad Google Plus is insignificant, Google's way of building reliable software is on completely different level than FB.

Facebook

by makbol 9y ago

Facebook

Really? How so? The page loads fairly quickly for me, and the design is highly optimized. Not optimized for users, mind you, but optimized for profitability. If you don't like Facebook, that's one thing but it's hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed.

cryptoz 9y ago
> Not optimized for users It's slow and buggy and awful to use on most Android phones for most of history. It sucks the CPU and battery while you're not using it and slows your whole phone down. > hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed. No it's completely fair and totally true. The Facebook apps are really badly designed and so are the websites.
- mabbo 9y ago
  Ah maybe that's what I'm missing- I don't use their app. The mobile website mostly works well for me. They removed messaging from it because they're jerks, but you can switch the desktop mode and it works.
  - cryptoz 9y ago
    > They removed messaging from it because they're jerks That's another case of bad design. Intentionally making the webapp worse for you by removing perfectly good features so they can extract more $/user on average. They make lots of money and the make very poorly designed and user hostile software.
intellent 9y ago
The Desktop browser version of Facebook is slow af. It almost feels like they are loading every single HTML element with yet another API request.

saiya-jin 9y ago

Definitely this one. Buggy as hell for simple workflows of uploading pics, on mobile version (web, hell will freeze before I will again install any of their apps in my phone) chat/messenger gets added/removed randomly so I can/can't respond to messages. I did accept their initial scaling issues/crashes/broken functionality in say 2005-2008, but this web is unbelievably shitty even in 2018. 'Feature' of these days - when I find finally something interesting and worth commenting on, often clicking on Comment reloads whole part of the feed with the article never to be seen again, ever. Sometimes this happens also while just scrolling down, unbelievably frustrating. Unless I manually go to feed of given user. What an utter failure for such a highly valued company with basically 1 single product. They need proper competition, we users would only benefit from this. Too bad Google Plus is insignificant, Google's way of building reliable software is on completely different level than FB.