Communication
Post #4110, on Jan 27, 2022 in TG
Trollface dares critics to reclaim their beloved Facebook reaction emojis
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Hand-drawn meme panel: on the left, two identical, blurred male faces (concealing identity) are pasted onto stick-figure bodies holding gray assault rifles beside a sketched doorway. On the right, a classic wide-grin trollface stick figure brandishes a realistic hunting shotgun. Above the trollface, bold all-caps text reads “I HATE FACEBOOK I HATE FACEBOOK.” Below the scene, black text says “come and take your” followed by the full Facebook reaction bar rendered as emojis: 👍 👎 ❤️ 🔥 🎉 🤣 😱 😁 😗 💩 🤢. The joke frames a militant standoff over Facebook’s ubiquitous UI reactions, poking fun at developers’ love-hate relationship with social media features and the clutter of engagement icons that front-end engineers must design around
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Product: “We need ten new Facebook-style reactions ASAP.” Me, clutching the codebase like a shotgun: “Sure - just make it past the legacy enum wired into six services and a 4-TB ClickHouse table, then come and take your 👍👎❤️🔥🎉 if you’re still standing.”
When you've spent years building a 'pure' messaging platform with end-to-end encryption and minimal UI bloat, only to watch your users demand the same dopamine-hit reaction emojis you've been philosophically opposing. The real encryption challenge isn't protecting messages - it's protecting your product vision from feature creep driven by user migration patterns
Telegram's growth strategy: wait for Facebook's next outage or privacy scandal, then simply hold the door open - churn engineering at its finest
The real engineering marvel isn't the distributed systems or the ML recommendation algorithms - it's building a platform so addictive that users will simultaneously hate it, publicly denounce it, and compulsively check it 47 times a day while collecting their daily dopamine hits from reaction notifications. It's the only product where 'I'm deleting my account' has become a recurring subscription model
Yelling "I HATE FACEBOOK" while picking the 😡 reaction is self-serve labeling - nice work, you just backprop’d your rage into the recommender and met the PM’s engagement OKR
Saying we hate Facebook while wiring OAuth, Graph API webhooks, reactions telemetry, and the Ads Pixel is the enterprise definition of “cloud‑agnostic.”
Zuck's Graph API exit strategy: 'Come take it' - but those webhooks will webhook you right back in
Do people still use fb nowadays? Comment deleted
Do people still use nowadays for today? Comment deleted
yes, nowadays people use nowadays Comment deleted
so maybe it will be more correct if you gonna say using. By the way, is nowadays is in continious? Comment deleted
Maybe. Also maybe "use" would be right, because present simple means you do something periodically or usually, like "you use your kitchen knife". Comment deleted
honestly, don't know what's the right way Comment deleted
both are correct Comment deleted
mods, enable some reactions, come on Comment deleted