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> There's certainly some companies that are caught in the hype and build a SPA app when they would probably be better served with a simple PHP site Yeah, like
by 4bpp 6y ago
> There's certainly some companies that are caught in the hype and build a SPA app when they would probably be better served with a simple PHP site
Yeah, like your example, Facebook. Ever since their redesign, I've switched to only using the mobile+noscript site (on desktop), because the SPA version is resource-hungry to the point that it regularly DoSes whatever browser thread it gets assigned to and has UX that, ironically, seems to be terrible as anything other than a mobile app (they've replaced text with abstract square "touchable" buttons and introduced airy spacing everywhere that allows you to see maybe about half a post per screen).
It's as if its designers have been trying to ram their mobile app down my throat for years (by nagging screens at first, and then by outright removing the ability to view private messages from the mobile page - except sometimes by refreshing sufficiently many times you could trigger a bug and still drop through to the old messenger view, adding insult to injury), and when I still didn't bite, they decided to replace the whole service (which up until then had been one of the last remaining decent mainstream websites) with a facsimile of one.
- kyawzazaw 6y ago> Yeah, like your example, Facebook. Ever since their redesign, I've switched to only using the mobile+noscript site (on desktop), because the SPA version is resource-hungry to the point that it regularly DoSes whatever browser thread it gets assigned to and has UX that, ironically, seems to be terrible as anything other than a mobile app (they've replaced text with abstract square "touchable" buttons and introduced airy spacing everywhere that allows you to see maybe about half a post per screen). I have literally not heard of anyone complaining about this (not that your argument is invalid). A whole lot of people are just not gonna bother or check how resource intensive it is.
- pmlnr 6y ago> I have literally not heard of anyone complaining about this EVERYONE complains about the speed of "new" (2020?) Facebook.
- garmaine 6y agoI will add my voice to the list of complainers. I stopped using Facebook after they forced me to upgrade to the new site.
- ttt0 6y agoI rarely use Facebook, but can confirm too. The older version wasn't great either.
- HeadsUpHigh 6y agoWell you can count a second complaint here. Of course it's much smoother on Chrome.