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My problem with the news feed is how non-deterministic the results are. There have been so many cases where I will see a post/photo/video that I find interestin

by faide 11y ago

My problem with the news feed is how non-deterministic the results are. There have been so many cases where I will see a post/photo/video that I find interesting, but fuck me if I ever want to find it again on a different device or at some point in the future if I didn't bookmark it or remember who posted it and when. It always seems like a random shuffling of the deck when I load the page, and it's incredibly frustrating.

yeukhon 11y ago
My biggest problem seems to be a bug, not sure if it is FB or browser. But from time to time as you scroll down the news feed, FB displays the stuff you have already seen from the beginning. Sounds like a problem with request firing off and not able to retrieve and populate stuff from the beginning again. There is also no way to "remember this" unless you like the post.
- soneca 11y ago
  I started having the exact same problem on my Windows Phone FB app. Took some time to realize it was a bug and not a weird deja vu of mine.
- jlgaddis 11y ago
  Click the little drop down arrow at the top right of each post. On many of them (maybe not all -- I can't check right now), there's now a "Save" option.
  - yeukhon 11y ago
    Ah great! Thanks.
- what_ever 11y ago
  Yup that bug is really annoying. I have observed it only kicks if you open a photo in the photo viewer and then go back to the home feed by closing the photo viewer.
amelius 11y ago
Related: I noticed recently that basic history navigation is broken on facebook. Not just for the newsfeed. Anyone else who noticed this as well?
NoGravitas 11y ago
Not only that, on mobile, I'll follow a link from FB, read an article, and go back. The mobile page reloads, and shows a completely different set of articles. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU.
jgh 11y ago
Came here to complain about this so I upvoted you instead. It would be great, too, if their search could actually show posts.. My usual go-to when I'm trying to find something again is to go to the person's profile, but sometimes I forget who posted it and in that case there's basically no hope in finding the post again...

by faide 11y ago

yeukhon 11y ago

My biggest problem seems to be a bug, not sure if it is FB or browser. But from time to time as you scroll down the news feed, FB displays the stuff you have already seen from the beginning. Sounds like a problem with request firing off and not able to retrieve and populate stuff from the beginning again. There is also no way to "remember this" unless you like the post.

soneca 11y ago
I started having the exact same problem on my Windows Phone FB app. Took some time to realize it was a bug and not a weird deja vu of mine.
jlgaddis 11y ago
Click the little drop down arrow at the top right of each post. On many of them (maybe not all -- I can't check right now), there's now a "Save" option.
- yeukhon 11y ago
  Ah great! Thanks.
what_ever 11y ago
Yup that bug is really annoying. I have observed it only kicks if you open a photo in the photo viewer and then go back to the home feed by closing the photo viewer.

amelius 11y ago

Related: I noticed recently that basic history navigation is broken on facebook. Not just for the newsfeed. Anyone else who noticed this as well?

NoGravitas 11y ago

Not only that, on mobile, I'll follow a link from FB, read an article, and go back. The mobile page reloads, and shows a completely different set of articles. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU.

jgh 11y ago

Came here to complain about this so I upvoted you instead. It would be great, too, if their search could actually show posts.. My usual go-to when I'm trying to find something again is to go to the person's profile, but sometimes I forget who posted it and in that case there's basically no hope in finding the post again...