LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app

Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by threeseed on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:01PM (#22470464)

Just because there are features that you don't use doesn't make it a problem.

In fact people who like stories and camera effects likely way outnumber the people that don't.

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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by jkmcf on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:18PM (#22471264)

I interpreted “problem” as the bloat problem in a 1.7 mloc chat app.

Summarizing it as a chat app is probably the first miscommunication here.

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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Aeolun on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:23AM (#22473266)

I strongly doubt that. The number of people in my list of friends (400ish) that use stories is marginal.

The number of people that use camera effects as anything other than a gimmick is even smaller.

Maybe a different age group?

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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by golergka on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:36AM (#22473322)

> my list of friends

I think that most of people of HN have friend groups which are wildly unrepresentative of world population at large. We're talking not even an average US or European citizen here - we're talking 1+ billion. People from developing countries who very often access internet only from a smartphone (they don't own a computer) and who almost don't visit plain http websites outside of the few social apps.

It's a completely different world out there.

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