Facebook this week said it will begin rolling out new technology that allows users on slower mobile connections to still see new stories in their News Feed, even when on a poor connection or when they’re unable to reach Facebook’s servers.
In addition, users will be able to comment on posts when they’re offline, and those comments will be posted to the app when your connection returns.
The company explains that the goal with these changes is to better aid those in developing markets, where they primarily access the social network via phones on slower 2G connections.
The way Facebook’s News Feed was originally designed didn’t take into account how these users would struggle when trying to view new content on the network over these lagging connections, however.