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... and I can't even continue the chat from my phone.

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[-] onion@feddit.de 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Harddrives start at 16€/TB, so 500MB would be 0.008€. SSDs start at 50€/TB, so it would be 0.025€ or two-and-a-half cents

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 months ago

I don't think people are worried about storing hundreds of Signal instances, this isn't a photo backup.
The concerns are bloat, optimisation, and memory usage.

Also, HDDs can go from $7.5/TB

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

That's the point. The storage is a bad metric. While it might indicate poor performance, it's not a direct indication of poor performance. The bloat and optimization comes from the usage of Electron. And people use Electron because it's far easier to make cross-platform deployments for Web and desktop using a framework like Electron. Show me the QT/JavaFX app that mimics Signal and we can compare the cost to develop it. Electron isn't the best choice for memory usage and reducing bloat, but it's the best choice for quick development (in my opinion but also proven out by the market share it has)

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Me putting a 4 TB 3.5" HDD in my phone

[-] onion@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago

Why are you installing Signal Desktop on your phone?

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

You got me there

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

yes but think about how much money writing 500MB worth of code would cost.

I realize it's not all code, and some of it is already written, but please, muse me, and do the math for it.

[-] onion@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Writing less code costs more money. The programm is large because they slapped some existing stuff together instead of writing everything from scratch

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

there is an inevitable cost to written code though, it simply cannot be computed away. In this case the cost is just a shitty application with an even shittier user experience.

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