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Facebook's Android application has been riddled with bugs for months, overrun with ads and now they are cutting the workforce. It'll be interesting.

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On the developer side, they’re even closing down their API bug tracker, having first dropped from 95% 30 day resolution to 56%.

Ironically this will most probably help as most companies now understand that putting more people on the same piece of software doesn't really help but make it worse.

You still need to keep the remaining employees engaged, though.

Adding workforce is not useful != removing workforce is

I hope it helps them. At my company, there were efforts to compartmentalize our web application to make it more scalable for adding more features inside it. I left before I saw this effort in action, but the principles it was based on were solid. I believe some applications could be compartmentalized so that adding more features/teams would bring more value (without making it worse) however, I might be wrong.

Facebook's apps on Android were always second-class citizens.

As opposed to the website? I thought everyone is pushing apps now.

As opposed to the iOS apps, sorry I wasn't clear.

Why would they prioritize the smaller userbase?

They make a lot more money on iOS, so it's a sensible business decision to spend less engineering resources on Android.

The iOS app had more than 18,000 classes (in 2015, god knows how many it is now).

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