anonymous asked
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anonymous asked
"fun" fact: the Instagram app is partially prerendered. Some endpoints return UI stuff in a cursed format.
Yeah some kind of html snippet. They may not send just JSON data because your app may be outdated!
It can be seasonal campaigns as example (eg halloween) -
anonymous asked
"fun" fact: the Instagram app is partially prerendered. Some endpoints return UI stuff in a cursed format.
Yeah some kind of html snippet. They may not send just JSON data because your app may be outdated!
It can be seasonal campaigns as example (eg halloween)Also: would you push an update just for Halloween months in advance blowing the size of your app… or would just say “fuck it html from the server and we do it in a week”
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anonymous asked
"fun" fact: the Instagram app is partially prerendered. Some endpoints return UI stuff in a cursed format.
Yeah some kind of html snippet. They may not send just JSON data because your app may be outdated!
It can be seasonal campaigns as example (eg halloween)@gabboman that was solved by Google using protobuffers. The clients will simply ignore any field they don't know about.
You can switch on an Android phone from 15 years ago and the stock Google Maps will more or less work. -
@gabboman that was solved by Google using protobuffers. The clients will simply ignore any field they don't know about.
You can switch on an Android phone from 15 years ago and the stock Google Maps will more or less work.but the idea in instagram case is "I WANT YOU TO DISPLAY THIS THING YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT IT IS", the oposite
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Also: would you push an update just for Halloween months in advance blowing the size of your app… or would just say “fuck it html from the server and we do it in a week”
@gabboman@gabboman.xyz I think you are giving Instagram far too much credit here.
Realistically, it was more like "shit, we need to ship pumpkin spice filters today, says marketing"