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Use this URL[1] to open it in a browser with adblock. It gives your feed in reverse chronological order, with a 90%+ ratio of friends posts. (Just verified) [1

Use this URL[1] to open it in a browser with adblock. It gives your feed in reverse chronological order, with a 90%+ ratio of friends posts. (Just verified) [1] https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr [Update] If you click anything it takes you away from that feed... that's why I have it in my Bookmarks toolbar. If I find myself going "wait.. this feels different"... I look up and see the URL is now the generic one, and I've fallen off the path. Also: I have 141 friends... not sure if that's a high or low number relative to others.. but there's always someone posting. I just read until I've seen it before, twice. (Some people repost other people's stuff)

gnicholas 4y ago
This has been broken for me for the better part of the last 5 years. It would show me posts from several days prior, when I had just seen that there were posts from a few hours prior. It's almost as if FB didn't care to fix the chronological feed, since they wanted you to use The Algorithm instead...
jonny_eh 4y ago
This didn't work for me at all.
notacoward 4y ago
I've been using and recommending this for years. They've broken it twice that I can recall, but both times only briefly. It's the only thing that makes the site tolerable for me. I don't know why other people are reporting that it doesn't work for them. Usually the explanation for such differences would be that they're on the other side of a gatekeeper setting (gatekeeper being the system that FB uses for gradual rollouts) but that doesn't seem likely in this case. Maybe some sort of caching artifact, or something broken about their configs, or HNers just lying because they have an axe to grind, but it does still work at least for some of us.
bbarn 4y ago
Yeah... I had to scroll 9 posts down to find one from a single friend. uBlock running. That trick hasn't worked in a long time, in fact I've had that same URL as my bookmark for years.
gjm11 4y ago
With h_chr + SocialFixer + uBlock Origin (but, note, FB have been messing with their HTML in ways that currently break SocialFixer's sponsored-post detection filters, so this is a bit worse than usual) the top 50 items in my feed are: 34 posts from friends, 9 of which are vapid feel-good glurge (I have a couple of friends who post, or rather share, a lot of this) 1 birthday message from one friend to another 5 posts in groups I belong to 10 sponsored posts, of which 8 are completely 100% uninteresting to me and two are only 90% uninteresting (e.g., one of them is an ad for a play I might conceivably be interested in seeing, if I lived anywhere near the place it's running). The SNR is definitely worse than "90%+ friends" but also much better than "98% suggested pages and barely any friends". (I am using "friends" in the Facebook sense, but I am fairly discriminating about this and all my Facebook "friends" are people I have actually met in the physical world and would enjoy spending some time with.)

gnicholas 4y ago

This has been broken for me for the better part of the last 5 years. It would show me posts from several days prior, when I had just seen that there were posts from a few hours prior. It's almost as if FB didn't care to fix the chronological feed, since they wanted you to use The Algorithm instead...

jonny_eh 4y ago

This didn't work for me at all.

notacoward 4y ago

I've been using and recommending this for years. They've broken it twice that I can recall, but both times only briefly. It's the only thing that makes the site tolerable for me. I don't know why other people are reporting that it doesn't work for them. Usually the explanation for such differences would be that they're on the other side of a gatekeeper setting (gatekeeper being the system that FB uses for gradual rollouts) but that doesn't seem likely in this case. Maybe some sort of caching artifact, or something broken about their configs, or HNers just lying because they have an axe to grind, but it does still work at least for some of us.

bbarn 4y ago

Yeah... I had to scroll 9 posts down to find one from a single friend. uBlock running. That trick hasn't worked in a long time, in fact I've had that same URL as my bookmark for years.

gjm11 4y ago

With h_chr + SocialFixer + uBlock Origin (but, note, FB have been messing with their HTML in ways that currently break SocialFixer's sponsored-post detection filters, so this is a bit worse than usual) the top 50 items in my feed are: 34 posts from friends, 9 of which are vapid feel-good glurge (I have a couple of friends who post, or rather share, a lot of this) 1 birthday message from one friend to another 5 posts in groups I belong to 10 sponsored posts, of which 8 are completely 100% uninteresting to me and two are only 90% uninteresting (e.g., one of them is an ad for a play I might conceivably be interested in seeing, if I lived anywhere near the place it's running). The SNR is definitely worse than "90%+ friends" but also much better than "98% suggested pages and barely any friends". (I am using "friends" in the Facebook sense, but I am fairly discriminating about this and all my Facebook "friends" are people I have actually met in the physical world and would enjoy spending some time with.)