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I feel like I belong in the minority who like the new Facebook SPA. It loads shockingly fast on my computer, almost instantaneous even

H8crilA 6y ago
It's almost like Windows 95! I click something and then it just happens, immediately! Funny how people forgot that you actually can make (web)apps fast.
- mrlala 6y ago
  But being an SPA I'm sure it's a billion times more manageable for them to maintain instead of a javascript hack nightmare. So, yeah of course you can always make something lightning fast.. but can you manage it, or even develop it properly in the first place?
  - gear54rus 6y ago
    SPA is not synonymous with slowness, this meme needs to die already.
    - samoa42 6y ago
      not sure where you think this meme (never heard of it) was brought up itt.
wrkronmiller 6y ago
Interesting, it's very slow for me, and usually triggers warnings from Safari for excess resource consumption.
- sgt 6y ago
  I think it's extra slow in Safari, for some reason. Just like Google Maps is also slower in Safari than in Chrome. However, overall I would say Safari is the fastest browser out there, based on my own browsing habits. Also most memory efficient.
  - harrygeez 6y ago
    I've personally experienced this many times using Safari. Pages that take up a lot of memory just straight up freeze and start chugging.
    - nwienert 6y ago
      I have a feeling this may be React related. Safari is on average far, far faster on any site. But I have a larger React site that slows down quite a bit more than Chrome. Perhaps related to the const+let vs var bug the other day.
      - swyx 6y ago
        unlikely - any production build of React would transpile down to var for IE support
    - xenospn 6y ago
      I usually get the “this page is using too much memory” warning repeatedly using safari. And apparently there’s no way to make it go away, which is super annoying.
      - sgt 6y ago
        Come to think of it, even Google Calendar does this if you leave the tab open in Safari for more than a day. Is this Safari's fault or Google?
- edoceo 6y ago
  Heavy JS apps (eg:React) have all had perf issues on my Safari. Not just FB, anyone using React has cause this issue on my machine. Chrome and FF also using more resources for Heavy JS (not as much as Safari) but maybe they just have better engines. I loathe the over-js'd web.
  - heavyset_go 6y ago
    React apps are generally slow in Firefox, as well.
timc3 6y ago
It hangs all the time for me, video scrubbing halts the entire tab, and it uses a lot of CPU sometimes.
- harrygeez 6y ago
  Any chance you're using Safari?
  - RandallBrown 6y ago
    It loads very fast for me with Safari, but I regularly get an empty newsfeed or only 1 or 2 posts.
- bgirard 6y ago
  That's not expected. If you can send me a performance profile I'll look into it. My nick @fb.com.
ccktlmazeltov 6y ago
SPA? Ah, single page app
DarkCrusader2 6y ago
I feel the same with Twitter re-design too. Everyone was hating the re-design when it was launched but my twitter use increased from once or twice a week to couple of times a day after the new design. It is amazingly fast(on desktop at least), behaves in all the right ways you would expect, you never lose you position anywhere, using back button always works properly, gracefully handles connection loss, and again, it's so fast and pleasurable to use. Too bad can't say the same for the content on the site.
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  People dislike change, but I don't believe big companies change their design on a whim; they do a ton of research, and while some may complain, they know it'll be an improvement over their existing designs.
thrusong 6y ago
Weird. It's incredibly buggy for me. I get notifications popping up but there's nothing there. Same thing with the messages jewel. I'll get a notification about a reply to my comment, I'll go to the comment, like it, and then it will scroll me down to the same reply as a top level comment at the bottom of the post. I've reported all the weirdness I've come across but nothing's changed since I was switched over a month ago.
ksec 6y ago
On Safari, it feel fast in some places, but there are still many Janks. And no anywhere near as good as the App Experience. Especially in Scrolling and Lots of Imaging.

H8crilA 6y ago

It's almost like Windows 95! I click something and then it just happens, immediately! Funny how people forgot that you actually can make (web)apps fast.

mrlala 6y ago
But being an SPA I'm sure it's a billion times more manageable for them to maintain instead of a javascript hack nightmare. So, yeah of course you can always make something lightning fast.. but can you manage it, or even develop it properly in the first place?
- gear54rus 6y ago
  SPA is not synonymous with slowness, this meme needs to die already.
  - samoa42 6y ago
    not sure where you think this meme (never heard of it) was brought up itt.

wrkronmiller 6y ago

Interesting, it's very slow for me, and usually triggers warnings from Safari for excess resource consumption.

sgt 6y ago
I think it's extra slow in Safari, for some reason. Just like Google Maps is also slower in Safari than in Chrome. However, overall I would say Safari is the fastest browser out there, based on my own browsing habits. Also most memory efficient.
- harrygeez 6y ago
  I've personally experienced this many times using Safari. Pages that take up a lot of memory just straight up freeze and start chugging.
  - nwienert 6y ago
    I have a feeling this may be React related. Safari is on average far, far faster on any site. But I have a larger React site that slows down quite a bit more than Chrome. Perhaps related to the const+let vs var bug the other day.
    - swyx 6y ago
      unlikely - any production build of React would transpile down to var for IE support
  - xenospn 6y ago
    I usually get the “this page is using too much memory” warning repeatedly using safari. And apparently there’s no way to make it go away, which is super annoying.
    - sgt 6y ago
      Come to think of it, even Google Calendar does this if you leave the tab open in Safari for more than a day. Is this Safari's fault or Google?
edoceo 6y ago
Heavy JS apps (eg:React) have all had perf issues on my Safari. Not just FB, anyone using React has cause this issue on my machine. Chrome and FF also using more resources for Heavy JS (not as much as Safari) but maybe they just have better engines. I loathe the over-js'd web.
- heavyset_go 6y ago
  React apps are generally slow in Firefox, as well.

timc3 6y ago

It hangs all the time for me, video scrubbing halts the entire tab, and it uses a lot of CPU sometimes.

harrygeez 6y ago
Any chance you're using Safari?
- RandallBrown 6y ago
  It loads very fast for me with Safari, but I regularly get an empty newsfeed or only 1 or 2 posts.
bgirard 6y ago
That's not expected. If you can send me a performance profile I'll look into it. My nick @fb.com.

ccktlmazeltov 6y ago

SPA? Ah, single page app

DarkCrusader2 6y ago

I feel the same with Twitter re-design too. Everyone was hating the re-design when it was launched but my twitter use increased from once or twice a week to couple of times a day after the new design. It is amazingly fast(on desktop at least), behaves in all the right ways you would expect, you never lose you position anywhere, using back button always works properly, gracefully handles connection loss, and again, it's so fast and pleasurable to use. Too bad can't say the same for the content on the site.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago
People dislike change, but I don't believe big companies change their design on a whim; they do a ton of research, and while some may complain, they know it'll be an improvement over their existing designs.

thrusong 6y ago

Weird. It's incredibly buggy for me. I get notifications popping up but there's nothing there. Same thing with the messages jewel. I'll get a notification about a reply to my comment, I'll go to the comment, like it, and then it will scroll me down to the same reply as a top level comment at the bottom of the post. I've reported all the weirdness I've come across but nothing's changed since I was switched over a month ago.

ksec 6y ago

On Safari, it feel fast in some places, but there are still many Janks. And no anywhere near as good as the App Experience. Especially in Scrolling and Lots of Imaging.