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Facebook's Android application has been riddled with bugs for months, overrun with ads and now they are cutting the workforce. It'll be interesting.

• slig 3y ago
  Facebook's apps on Android were always second-class citizens.
  • flangola7 3y ago
    As opposed to the website? I thought everyone is pushing apps now.
    • slig 3y ago
      As opposed to the iOS apps, sorry I wasn't clear.
      • flangola7 3y ago
        Why would they prioritize the smaller userbase?
• yevpats 3y ago
  Ironically this will most probably help as most companies now understand that putting more people on the same piece of software doesn't really help but make it worse.
  • whiplash451 3y ago
    You still need to keep the remaining employees engaged, though. Adding workforce is not useful != removing workforce is
  • gatefun 3y ago
    I hope it helps them. At my company, there were efforts to compartmentalize our web application to make it more scalable for adding more features inside it. I left before I saw this effort in action, but the principles it was based on were solid. I believe some applications could be compartmentalized so that adding more features/teams would bring more value (without making it worse) however, I might be wrong.
• ceejayoz 3y ago
  On the developer side, they’re even closing down their API bug tracker, having first dropped from 95% 30 day resolution to 56%.
• diebeforei485 3y ago
  They make a lot more money on iOS, so it's a sensible business decision to spend less engineering resources on Android.
  • tonyedgecombe 3y ago
    The iOS app had more than 18,000 classes (in 2015, god knows how many it is now). https://darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-problem/ https://darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-probl...