This Is How Facebook Is Working to Improve Experience on Slower Connections

Facebook is working on ways to allow people to compose comments when they're offline and browse News Feed on poor connections.

Facebook may work pretty well if you’re on WiFi on your iPhone, but for many Facebook users around the globe, that’s not their situation.

In recent years, Facebook has paid close attention to its user experience on 2G and other slow connections. In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook outlined how it is trying to build out the world’s largest social network, while still keeping emerging markets in mind.

Facebook is working on ways to allow people to compose comments when they’re offline and browse News Feed on poor connections.

Facebook’s Chris Marra and Alex Sourov wrote a blog post, detailing how Facebook can still load and avoid the ghost when the connection is spotty:

In the past, if you were on a poor Internet connection or had no connection, you might need to wait for stories to load when you opened News Feed.

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