Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ...
by kuschku on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:49AM
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> It's a chat app that works very well even on the crappiest connections.
That's a joke, right? On a crappy internet connection (e.g. using O2 as carrier on the train cologne-hamburg you get ~12s ping, 30kbps, >90% packets dropped, via edge) most chat apps stop working, but Facebook Messenger is (except for Riot.im and Discord) probably the one that works worst.
Telegram works better, even IRC via Quassel/Quasseldroid works significantly better, and especially WhatsApp works so well you don't even notice the connection issues.
Facebook Messenger doesn't even properly start on such crappy connections.
That's a joke, right? On a crappy internet connection (e.g. using O2 as carrier on the train cologne-hamburg you get ~12s ping, 30kbps, >90% packets dropped, via edge) most chat apps stop working, but Facebook Messenger is (except for Riot.im and Discord) probably the one that works worst.
Telegram works better, even IRC via Quassel/Quasseldroid works significantly better, and especially WhatsApp works so well you don't even notice the connection issues.
Facebook Messenger doesn't even properly start on such crappy connections.