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Not being facetious, but what to the devs do all day to earn that? Their core functionality, Find a Friend, is pathetically limited and naive. Why can't I sear
by dingaling 6y ago
Not being facetious, but what to the devs do all day to earn that?
Their core functionality, Find a Friend, is pathetically limited and naive. Why can't I search for ( cohort of near my age who went to my school ) or ( everyone called Bob who is one or two hops from Alice and lives in Bigville )?
Or even search a friend list by some criteria instead of scrolling through 1200 names.
Frankly it sucks.
- askafriend 6y ago> Why can't I search for ( cohort of near my age who went to my school ) or ( everyone called Bob who is one or two hops from Alice and lives in Bigville )? They had this feature a couple years ago. It was called Graph Search and did exactly what you're suggesting (and even more impressive than that). They shut it down fairly quickly because it was a huge privacy and security issue as well as an incredibly abusive feature at their scale. Building products in a system as complex as FB is not as straightforward as adding features just because you can or have the talent to do so.
- rainyMammoth 6y agoMost devs in bigTechs micro optimize very little things (ie, cogs in the machine). It makes sense only at a scale where those micro-optimization can pay for themselves. I'm not sure how you stay sane working on those micro-issues though.