Comment by bauerd
1 day ago
It's part of a constantly evolving ecosystem. It's a stable product because reliability engineers make it so and software engineers get the integrations right.
1 day ago
It's part of a constantly evolving ecosystem. It's a stable product because reliability engineers make it so and software engineers get the integrations right.
But a messaging program like Signal is fairly similar in scope, but only has like a couple dozen of devs, compared to Messenger's thousands(?).
You haven't used messenger much then, if you're comparing the complexity of the two.
I guess I don't understand which are the features Messenger has that Signal doesn't that requires a billion dollars a year to maintain.
I don't use it. What am I missing?
Signal could definitely use a bunch more devs, if only to fix all the UX bugs I hit on a daily basis.
It still doesn't take a team that large.
When I was at Facebook they decided to re-write Messenger in C. There were people who thought it was a waste of time. There were people who thought it was a great idea. It was a lot of work, took a while, and I wouldn't be suprised if by now it's been re-written to something else.
It's not that hard to make up work, and there's people whose whole job is pretty much just that.
There is no way messenger features or functionality is changing that much year over year.
It’s almost entirely bloat.