How can Facebook with so many employees be so incapable of having a stable platform running on PC? The platform always is laggy and feels super buggy. On mobile it runs fine, but it seems like on all my windows devices it runs like shit. And I'm not the only one experiencing this because friends report it too. You can't even scroll down your news feed or a group too much because it will start lagging like sh*t. Clicking an image takes seconds to open. The video player in the chat window is lacking basic features like unmuting/volume control or the ability to go to a certain minute. And no, it's not because I don't have the hardware for it or other type of argument like this. My question is how is it possible? Is this what happens when you only hire people that grind leet code?
It only needs to be good enough to keep people using it so that they can harvest their data and use it to sell ads.
Cause FB developers are only good at leetcode and not solving real problems.
I guess one reason that web is so slow and buggy is that they intentionally fuck up dom structure to counter ad blocker. Google also intentionally makes their sites slow as hell on non chrome browsers.
I found it to be bug-free. I have never seen anything not work while I used the site. It may not be really fast, because they're dealing with a ridiculous amount of operations all the time.
Only Facebook bugs I see are from the mobile HTML version, and they seem to be there on purpose (to push users into the app, which can collect your data better)
It is slow on desktop, because old people have old computers and don’t notice the lag.
What percent of sessions are from a Windows PC these days, anyway? 2%?
There's a lot of old outdated stuff there, and it's hard to dedicate resources to since mobile is priority. Web usage is slowly dying off while mobile is skyrocketing. Android has something like 8x the usage of web. Mobile web users are an even tinier fraction. The big issue though is ad blockers. Ad blockers will also slow things down and potentially break the site. Since fb is always changing how ads are obfuscated, ad blockers routinely fuck up and hide the wrong things, cause the page to lock up, etc. This stuff is constantly reported internally and root cause is almost always that the reporter is using an ad blocker. That being said, there's still a lot of work being done to improve desktop web despite its declining user numbers.
Moving fast and breaking things
Come on it's been like this for years. On mobile it runs so well. Why can't it run just as well on PC where you have better cpus, gpus and more ram