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I think this is kind of abusive of FB's infrastructure TBH. It must be hard to keep real-time messaging up for ... okay, I was going to say for 1 billion users, looked it up and it's 1.3 billion monthly actives - 890 million daily actives (Jan 2014 figure). So tell you what, on second thought I think they can handle your data.

however there's a good chance you'll cause some infrastructure problems since I'm sure there are assumptions baked in, regarding how often a user will send new messages, queuing, caching, etc. so I'm still not totally sure how I feel about this.

at the end of the day FB is just a php script. i wouldn't be surprised if you break it.




> at the end of the day FB is just a php script

Facebook Chat isn't. It's primarily Erlang/C++.

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919


Facebook chat stopped being Erlang quite some time ago.


"FB is just a php script" was just a joke :)


Maybe if it becomes popular, it'll make facebook rethink wanting to store everyone's messages until the end of time.


If facebook can see this traffic, they would love it, not discourage it.


I think a good implementation of this would encrypt the traffic between the proxy server and the client.


Or limit how much data you can send over chat. Say max 10 bytes per second sustained (higher burst) allowed. Should be enough for normal chat, while limiting infrastructure problems.


Hahahah nope.


I totally support this "abuse" of their infrastructure if it makes them realize that giving free access to their own social network via Internet.org isn't a charitable endeavour.


It's one of the more useful ways facebook infrastructure is put to work.




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