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Incidentally the facebook app itself really handled this gracefully. When the app can't connect to facebook, it displays "updates" from a pool of cached content
by ghostoftiber 5y ago
Incidentally the facebook app itself really handled this gracefully. When the app can't connect to facebook, it displays "updates" from a pool of cached content. It looks and feels like facebook is there, but we know it's not. I didn't notice this until the outage and I thought it was neat.
- divbzero 5y agoI’m curious if the app handled posts or likes gracefully too. Did it accept and cache the updates until it could reconnect to Facebook servers?
- ghostoftiber 5y agoI'm not a huge facebook user and I mostly use it to keep in touch with my parents. I did notice that trying to message them resulted in "message not delivered" (which gave me a prompt to retry) but I didn't try to post anything during the outage.
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- colanderman 5y agoWhatsApp failed similarly, but I thought it was a poor design decision to do so. Anyone waiting on communication through WhatsApp had no indication (outside the media) that it was unavailable, and that they should find a nother communication channel. Don't paper connectivity failures. It disempowers users
- jrockway 5y agoI think these features are designed for the timescales like "between subway stations which have cell service" or even "driving into a tunnel". In those cases, it seems totally appropriate to me.
- avh02 5y agowhatsapp used to have a "status" page in their app, they removed it years ago though. That said - yeah, i figured there's an issue when hard refreshing whatsapp web (sometimes has a kink that needs to be refreshed away) didn't work.
- perryizgr8 5y agoOn Instagram I was even able to "like" posts while the outage was in effect. Not sure if the app replayed those when the service came back.
- scrollaway 5y agoI suspect so. From the app's point of view it's likely not terribly different to losing cell service for a while.