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> For user-facing applications performance only really matters in human time, and is pretty far down on the list of how people choose software over things like
by keymone 7y ago
> For user-facing applications performance only really matters in human time, and is pretty far down on the list of how people choose software over things like features, price, ease of use, etc..
There was a study that has shown correlation between revenue drop and milliseconds that page takes to load. It’s not only hackers that respond to performance.
As for competition - due to network effects there are very few competitors to things like Facebook, Amazon and other big tech.
If these were federated services participating in communication built around some gigantic independent social graph - that would enable more competition in terms of UI performance, features, etc. Not going to happen anytime soon though.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThe e-commerce revenue example is different from the point of the apps people choose to use in general. Also, HNers always circlejerk over how fast and federated IRC is yet Slack and Discord ate IRC's lunch despite IRC's decades of head start and the bloatedness of the new arrivals. So you don't make a very convincing point that people really do care. Another example is email: gmail.com is super slow, there are a lot of competing email clients, yet I'm sure the vast majority of users don't care and just use gmail.com. I use the web interface.