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by immichaelwang 2607 days ago
How is Messenger Bloated?
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Its not like facebook applications haven't had insane amounts of duplicated resources and crazy amounts of gigantic libraries/frameworks: https://blog.timac.org/2017/0410-analysis-of-the-facebook-ap...

Not sure if its relevant for messenger or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if messenger was overly huge for the task its performing.

It is a piece of bloated app that adds all your FB friends to your messenger friend list automatically and constantly spams you to contact them on anniversaries etc. I deleted it the same day I downloaded it.
that's weird, i never get prompted to contact anyone except for the default thread that opens when you have a new friend, which admittedly i don't like
sometimes on HN I get the feeling that anything more than a command line application written in Rust or in C may be called bloated
C isn't hipster enough for HN.
I wrote a custom ARM assembler that generate prolog that uses genetic programming techniques to optimize the interface. I've found the best interface to be my set of 8 multi-colored LEDs driven by a custom build arduino system that talks serial. Unfortunately I have to use a usb-serial adapter these days, and then a usb-c-to-usb-a adapter. My dongles have dongles.
can't tell if you're serious, the beginning sounds crazy but the end is a mundane practical issue