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That's silly.

I work on a multitude of apps that have huge customer bases. Obviously no where near Facebook but, definitely a couple million users. The largest app has maybe 200K lines of code? And we are always able to find sections of the app to refactor or find dead code to cut.

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No offense but a couple million users doesn't mean you're playing the same game as someone significantly bigger than you.

I've worked for places that average 2-4 million users/per day 40+ million a day, they're an order of magnitudes different in every single way

I understand why the backend is different between such user bases, but shouldn't the complexity of the app be a function of features, not number of users?

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