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Yes, in particular, for large discussions, when I get a notification about a comment I made on it, and I click to jump to that comment, it takes a while to load -- and in a way oddly proportional to the size of the discussion and frequency of the posts on that group.

I'll always see the very top post of the group, and its whole page load, and then slowly my discussion will come up and then it will scroll down to that comment; and if I do anything, that breaks the whole process.

It's like no one ever considered the concept of just loading a piece of the discussion, like reddit does.

What's more, there are all kinds of UX nightmares, like how, if I open the messenger in one Facebook tab, it opens in every tab, blotting out content I want to read.

Or how a FB livestream event will just randomly stop playing, giving me no indication that I'm lagging behind the current video -- I've done trivia nights that way and I only find out I'm behind after my team members suggest answers to questions I haven't heard yet.



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