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Instagram. I was completely fine using a well-taken-care-of iPhone 8 until Instagram's input boxes became unusably slow on it, now I have an iPhone 13. I'm gue
by forgetfulness 2y ago
Instagram.
I was completely fine using a well-taken-care-of iPhone 8 until Instagram's input boxes became unusably slow on it, now I have an iPhone 13. I'm guessing that there'll be a race to make more powerful AI assistants, but makers of far more mundane apps will gobble up the computing power readily.
- deaddodo 2y agoInstagram's web app drains my computer's battery / knocks it into performance mode. It's obscene for a basic messaging and photo gallery site.
- zamfi 2y agoWhat is it actually doing with all that compute? Is it every animated thumbnail? Is it scaling thumbnail images? Re-flowing the page 120x/sec? Mining bitcoin? Anyone know?
- codersfocus 2y agoImproving the developer experience
- akomtu 2y agoSome sort of distributed face recognition offloaded to user devices?
- the_snooze 2y agoBloated JavaScript libraries and their bloated dependencies.
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoInstagram and FB eats a lot of memory on desktop too. Actually, a LOT of memory. Lots of times OOM kicks in, although on Linux only.
- piva00 2y agoFB is ridiculously unresponsive on my M3 Pro with a 1Gbps connection. The UI feels janky and laggy, the Messenger itself has noticeable delays, loading new sections is palpably slow. I cannot understand how, it's not an absurdly complex SPA doing a lot of computation on client-side, it just loads different modals and views. On the other hand, a complex app doing loads on the client like Onshape, a CAD modeling webapp is very snappy, and satisfying to use. I don't get how Meta's webapps can be this intensely heavy, even if heavily unoptimised.
- wg0 2y agoReact?
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoReact is steposhi level soft.
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoBecause they have to be stupid. Otherwise the "AUTHORITY" will come knocking. You are too smart, tone back, you have to look like stupid... per the invisible/unspoken rules. World is fucked. And those who create these invisible rules must be carpet nuclear bombed out of this world.
- piva00 2y agoI don't follow what you are alluding to, if it's content moderation you are reaching to I'd say that has absolutely nothing to do with how unresponsive the UI is, content moderation is not done client-side.
- sofixa 2y ago> It's obscene for a basic messaging That's an insult to basic messaging, I've seen better UX in tutorials on writing a chat application/website than the sorry excuse Instagram has. Same goes for their comments.
- innagadadavida 2y agoPart of move fast / break things culture. It also doesn’t help that Zuckerberg is trying hard to nit tightly integrate with native stack.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoIn a weird twist web app doesn’t have post privacy/visibility controls that actual app does.
- deaddodo 2y agoThe web app doesn't do 60% of what the app does, which is already barely anything.
- benhurmarcel 2y agoReddit's mobile website also kills my battery and makes my iPhone hot. I have no idea how that's possible when they just display text.