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		lookdangerous on May 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com 'Desire to offload more processing to end user machines to save compute' strikes me as a real possibility

badfrog on May 8, 2020 [–]

I think this is very unlikely. Making the page load one second faster pays Facebook more in terms of user retention and engagement than it costs them in server usage.

core-questions on May 8, 2020 | [–]

Do Facebook users really quit Facebook because the page is too slow? Maybe a minute, but one second?

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