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Facebook Has Been Intentionally Crashing Its Android App on Users (2016)
- mbilker 10y agoI guess they forgot about me. I use iOS but since the app takes so long to load I just stopped using it. I consider it to be a bit heavy.
- jedikv 10y agoWell this is one clue why - http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-the-facebook-ios-application-is-so http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th... Apparently (in 2015 at least), the iOS app had over 18,000 classes. There was even a presentation with a FB dev bragging about it's 'scale' tho suspiciously it's been scrubbed from the web
- zimpenfish 10y agoSomething I don't get about this is that it seems to be largely just a web view - what are all those classes doing?
- matheweis 10y agoLabel 2016, please...
- bpicolo 10y agoI suspect people will keep coming back because people are pretty used to internet services being flaky in general? The internet is not a shining pedestal of uptime.
- jonomw 10y agoAnother possibility is people expect developers to fix such fatal flaws and thus wait some time until the app may have been updated in the background. Or it could be possible that a normal user doesn't know how to resolve the error, so they ignore the app until a later time that it works.
- funnyfacts365 10y agoI installed Face Slim to my girlfriend when it happened for the 3rd time...
- longwave 10y agoNote this article is over a year old.
- Papirola 10y agoAfter a couple of crashes, I uninstalled mine.
- astrodust 10y agoDance, monkey, dance. Facebook lost me almost a decade ago because of their inane bullshit.
- jeremy7600 10y agoI always view Facebook in Chrome on Android. No need for an app. Another good reason to keep on keepin' on.
- guelo 10y agoWell to me it seems they've also been randomly breaking the web app. Besides the intentional off and on again Messanger functionality, I've seen random breakeages especially around posting. Maybe it's not intentional but knowing Facebook's manipulative history I wouldn't be surprised.
- chinathrow 10y agoUse mbasic.facebook.com and messages work again. It's unusable on m.facebook.com due to the app store redirect to install Messenger.
- DrScump 10y agoI always view Facebook in Chrome on Android... in an incognito window that is closed immediately afterward. Remember, they mine your cookies for all sites.
- pmontra 10y agoMy Xperia X came with the Facebook app pre-installed. I disabled it and I'm using the mobile site with Firefox and ublock. I think I still count as one that came back.
- ralphc 10y agoMy iOS app has crashed several times in a row today. Hmmmm....
- Raed667 10y agoI have switched from the Android app, to the web version on Firefox + uBlock ... I don't regret it at all
- vonklaus 10y agoI made & deleted a profile on Facebook ysterday for branding a product. Yelp and google biz as well. In my experience, it provides little value for startups except in narrow arenas (cause or nprofit/physical consumer product) and is a time sink. It reminded me of what a pain it was and it was worth having an hour as a sunk cost. If you are raising, it provides a minimal amount of validation and credibility, but time is much better spent elsewhere
- vorotato 10y agoThat's what you say when you can't stop your app from crashing.
- abandonliberty 10y agoI'm surprised whenever I see anyone running Facebook for Android. I haven't in years. Unnecessarily resource intensive, buggy, and slow. Overall, I can't fault them for this testing. It's understandable given the impact that Google could have on Facebook by dropping their app from the store.