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It's part of a constantly evolving ecosystem. It's a stable product because reliability engineers make it so and software engineers get the integrations right.
by bauerd 4mo ago
It's part of a constantly evolving ecosystem. It's a stable product because reliability engineers make it so and software engineers get the integrations right.
- lifeformed 4mo agoBut a messaging program like Signal is fairly similar in scope, but only has like a couple dozen of devs, compared to Messenger's thousands(?).
- fragmede 4mo agoSignal could definitely use a bunch more devs, if only to fix all the UX bugs I hit on a daily basis.
- ubercore 4mo agoYou haven't used messenger much then, if you're comparing the complexity of the two.
- nish__ 4mo agoI don't use it. What am I missing?
- lifeformed 4mo agoI guess I don't understand which are the features Messenger has that Signal doesn't that requires a billion dollars a year to maintain.
- MichaelZuo 4mo agoThere is no way messenger features or functionality is changing that much year over year. It’s almost entirely bloat.
- aylmao 4mo agoIt still doesn't take a team that large. When I was at Facebook they decided to re-write Messenger in C. There were people who thought it was a waste of time. There were people who thought it was a great idea. It was a lot of work, took a while, and I wouldn't be suprised if by now it's been re-written to something else. It's not that hard to make up work, and there's people whose whole job is pretty much just that.