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I feel like I belong in the minority who like the new Facebook SPA. It loads shockingly fast on my computer, almost instantaneous even

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It's almost like Windows 95! I click something and then it just happens, immediately!

Funny how people forgot that you actually can make (web)apps fast.

But being an SPA I'm sure it's a billion times more manageable for them to maintain instead of a javascript hack nightmare.

So, yeah of course you can always make something lightning fast.. but can you manage it, or even develop it properly in the first place?

SPA is not synonymous with slowness, this meme needs to die already.

not sure where you think this meme (never heard of it) was brought up itt.

Interesting, it's very slow for me, and usually triggers warnings from Safari for excess resource consumption.

I think it's extra slow in Safari, for some reason. Just like Google Maps is also slower in Safari than in Chrome. However, overall I would say Safari is the fastest browser out there, based on my own browsing habits. Also most memory efficient.

I've personally experienced this many times using Safari. Pages that take up a lot of memory just straight up freeze and start chugging.

I have a feeling this may be React related. Safari is on average far, far faster on any site. But I have a larger React site that slows down quite a bit more than Chrome.

Perhaps related to the const+let vs var bug the other day.

unlikely - any production build of React would transpile down to var for IE support

I usually get the “this page is using too much memory” warning repeatedly using safari. And apparently there’s no way to make it go away, which is super annoying.

Come to think of it, even Google Calendar does this if you leave the tab open in Safari for more than a day. Is this Safari's fault or Google?

Heavy JS apps (eg:React) have all had perf issues on my Safari. Not just FB, anyone using React has cause this issue on my machine.

Chrome and FF also using more resources for Heavy JS (not as much as Safari) but maybe they just have better engines.

I loathe the over-js'd web.

React apps are generally slow in Firefox, as well.

It hangs all the time for me, video scrubbing halts the entire tab, and it uses a lot of CPU sometimes.

That's not expected. If you can send me a performance profile I'll look into it. My nick @fb.com.

Any chance you're using Safari?

It loads very fast for me with Safari, but I regularly get an empty newsfeed or only 1 or 2 posts.

I feel the same with Twitter re-design too. Everyone was hating the re-design when it was launched but my twitter use increased from once or twice a week to couple of times a day after the new design.

It is amazingly fast(on desktop at least), behaves in all the right ways you would expect, you never lose you position anywhere, using back button always works properly, gracefully handles connection loss, and again, it's so fast and pleasurable to use. Too bad can't say the same for the content on the site.

People dislike change, but I don't believe big companies change their design on a whim; they do a ton of research, and while some may complain, they know it'll be an improvement over their existing designs.

Weird. It's incredibly buggy for me.

I get notifications popping up but there's nothing there. Same thing with the messages jewel.

I'll get a notification about a reply to my comment, I'll go to the comment, like it, and then it will scroll me down to the same reply as a top level comment at the bottom of the post.

I've reported all the weirdness I've come across but nothing's changed since I was switched over a month ago.

On Safari, it feel fast in some places, but there are still many Janks. And no anywhere near as good as the App Experience. Especially in Scrolling and Lots of Imaging.

SPA? Ah, single page app

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