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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by derefr on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:04PM (#22193594)
> Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality

Mind you, early Facebook wasn’t exactly a “tech business”—the code wasn’t making them any money, such that having a bug in the code would make them less money.

Really, Facebook only became a “tech business” once they got into 1. Messaging, and 2. Advertising. Then they had SLAs, and breaking those SLAs meant losing users/customers; and their ability to deliver on those SLAs became directly related to the quality of their code.

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by prostoalex on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:27PM (#22195861)
As a counterpoint, code choices and perceived site slowness contributed to Friendster's and MySpace's decline. Both had messaging and advertising.
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