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One thing I remember thinking was neat when I visited friends at FB (Meta) HQ in Menlo Park was they had fb.com/shitty (or something like that) which simulated
by gonehome 4y ago
One thing I remember thinking was neat when I visited friends at FB (Meta) HQ in Menlo Park was they had fb.com/shitty (or something like that) which simulated terrible connections. They even had little stations with crappy and yellowed with age compaq CRT monitors and really old hardware, old Nokia phones etc.
I thought that was pretty cool, don't know if that's something they still do though (this would have been back in 2013 or so).
- reaperducer 4y agoMy company let me expense for super low end cell phones from 7-Eleven and put each one on a different MVNO. Once a year I take them into the actual places where our users will use the web sites To see how the web sites perform. The visitors are 70% mobile users, and I shadow a few of them in the locations where the sites are used, like parking garages and basements and industrial buildings with lots of opportunities for interference. Very illuminating. And I suspect more accurate than many of the bad connection simulators I've seen.
- waste_monk 4y ago>they had fb.com/shitty (or something like that) https://mbasic.facebook.com/ https://mbasic.facebook.com/ perhaps? It is still available and is designed for the lowest of low-end dumbphones. It's a decent workaround if you need access to facebook's chat services on your phone but don't want to install that accursed messenger app.