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jducoeur ([personal profile] jducoeur) wrote2008-05-07 05:52 pm

A lesson in optionality

[Side-note: I haven't been posting much. Sorry: work's been eating my brain, and I don't want to bore people with a complete excess of CommYou stuff.]

Facebook's latest feature is built-in chat: when you're in FB, there is simply chat *there*. It's not something you turn on -- it just sits at the bottom of your window. And you Can't Turn It Off. (Far as I can tell.)

Which wouldn't be so bad, except that it's taking up about 60% of my CPU, far as I can tell. I was initially worried that something in CommYou was running out of control, but no -- it's just as bad on the Facebook homepage. And since Chat is their new feature, I rather suspect it's the culprit.

Moral of the story: features that the user can't turn off are *bad*; cute features that they can't turn off are worse. A lesson for me to remember in CommYou...
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Re: Huh

[personal profile] laurion 2008-05-08 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem here. Nor on the Mac.
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Re: Huh

[identity profile] alexx-kay.livejournal.com 2008-05-08 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Wacky hypothesis: Something about Jducouer's machine environment flags it to the chat code as "this is a development machine, so I should run in debug mode".