The social networking site Facebook, now improving more and more functionalities for his users to connect easily. Recently Facebook tweaks his "News Feed" to load fast over slow internet connections.
The News Feed in Facebook are taking a while to load and display feeds news, but now as a solution Facebook improve this section for users. In my areas there are billion of users who are still having slow connections so for these users Facebook give relief. Also Facebook Lite, becomes useful application introduce by Facebook for users who where using the 2G mobile internet.
With a massive chunk of its next billion users coming from places where 2G mobile Internet is still the widespread default, Facebook is looking to fix this.
They’re doing this in three ways, with these changes rolling out now:
- If your connection is totally borked, they’ll show you previously loaded/cached stories instead of the current fall back… which is basically a blank page
- If your connection kinda works but is slow, they’ll prioritize the loading of stuff you’re actively looking at, then try to load the stuff you’ll scroll to next.. Previously, they would try to load a bunch of News Feed items simultaneously, splitting your limited bandwidth across a bunch of items.
- They’ll try to avoid showing you stuff your connection can’t handle. Connection too slow for streaming videos at any reasonable rate? They just won’t show video, instead focusing on more text-based stuff.
Sure, it might mean you might not see a video or image you might otherwise love, but that’s pretty much how Facebook has worked for years now, anyway. You see what they think will provide a positive experience; in this case, people seem to want speed and accessibility.
It impacts those of us lucky to consider slow mobile connections an occasional inconvenience, though, too — hell, everyone who rides public transportation to work in the morning will probably appreciate being able to see previously loaded/cached stuff.
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