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Not sure how much impact this will have, most of the people I know and have discussed this with fall into two camps: people who use FB a lot an will put up with
by ska 7y ago
Not sure how much impact this will have, most of the people I know and have discussed this with fall into two camps: people who use FB a lot an will put up with a bad mobile client, and people who don't want FB on their phone, ever.
I have to go years back to think of someone who told me they just couldn't take the bad UX of the clients so they deleted it.
- monocasa 7y agoIt's probably not meant for us, but instead the third world phones where they've gotten to the point that it might not even install on a large part of their user base. Like I've heard from peace corps folk about how a large part of the third world thinks of messenger as "the internet", which is absolutely terrifying.
- ska 7y agoHadn't thought of that - good point.
- solarkraft 7y agoAs someone with a modern smartphone I'm a huge fan of these lite apps. Spotify lite, for example, has all the features, a better (!) UI (with material ripples) and everything loads about twice as fast. Every app should be a lite app. Devs, please start giving a shit about performance.
- novok 7y agoI've tried FB lite, and found it to be slower than the real app. FB lite seems to act like a fancy web browser, so each interaction needs to download it's UI along with content.
- solarkraft 7y agoWell hello. I've stopped using Snapchat and started using Instagram for stories because the experience, while still not great, is about twice as good.
- _bxg1 7y agoFor a while, before it really started to bloat, FB Messenger was the slickest, most well-rounded, most enjoyable messaging client I could find, and had the advantage that all of your friends were already on it. The bloating from Stories and everything happened to coincide with my ejection of all things Facebook from my life, but Messenger was a genuinely good product at one point. Sounds like it may be returning to that (though unfortunately that ship has sailed for other reasons).
- machello13 7y agoYep. In my high school and college days (2008-2016) Facebook Messenger was the way that you chatted with other people.
- on_and_off 7y agoI don't think that just because people don't complain about it it has no effect. re app size : Google has already published stats urging apps to optimize their size as much as possible since it has direct effects on acquisition. I suspect that long download times lead to more errors + more wait time before you can use the app = more likely that the user will abandon its current task and Same with slow app or ui patterns that don't fit with the platform = easier to lose users in the first crucial minutes.