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Man, FB is horridly optimized (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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I am baffled any time I'm on facebook how horrid it is. Loads insanely slowly, won't accept picture uploads at random, randomly doesn't let you share to people in your friends group (it will just hide people for no reason). Such a terrible website. Sadly I have to stay on it for friends and music reasons (there is nothing else anyone I know uses) but man, it's crazy how badly they want you to install their spyware app so you don't use the browser version.

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[–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I wish that was true but I dont prefer being completely isolated from my friends.

The fact of the matter is most of them have kids and jobs and dont know shit about technology and aren't going to install another app when "facebook works fine".

So yes I cant really complain about it, but man how shitty their site is just pisses me off when there is no reason for it to be this bad.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I get what you're saying but it's not actually that kind of all or nothing situation. I've never met a person that would only do FB or nothing at all. Everyone is browsing FB on their phone anyway so skip the middleman and start a group message thread. Easy solution that takes almost no effort or adjustment. Nothing will ever improve if people like you and I refuse to change our habits even slightly.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    For me the main thing not letting me quit WhatsApp (and FB before that) are groups and distribution lists. My cycling club uses WhatsApp to share info about all events. They are not going to move 300 people to Signal because I don't want to use WhatsApp. Same with climbing gym group. 30 people, everyone using WhatspApp. I proposed moving to Signal at one point but no one even knew what I was talking about. It was the same with FB, people would post announcements on FB and if you wanted to know what's going on you needed an account.

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