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No idea, it’d be nice if a few of those 80,000 could get the “hide” button to work properly when I hit it on my iPhone Facebook app. I hate when people post gro

by wincy 4y ago

No idea, it’d be nice if a few of those 80,000 could get the “hide” button to work properly when I hit it on my iPhone Facebook app. I hate when people post gross closeup pictures of spiders (my friends are weird) then the “hide” button grays it out for a second then instantly re-serves the post in the same spot in my feed. It has been like this for years now. It also took months and months for them to fix a “phantom message” where it’d show I had a single Messenger message from the main Facebook app, despite there being nothing there (even in the ‘not friends with you’ section, I checked!).

flerchin 4y ago
I wonder if that "phantom message" was intentional. It surely got you, and me, to check the Facebook messenger app several times.
e-clinton 4y ago
The unfollow feature works great. And so does the unfriend.
- lupire 4y ago
  As does the Super Unfriend feature, which comes in two flavors, indefinite and permanent.
- wincy 4y ago
  Honestly a lot of the pictures are people in a spina bifida parents support group sharing pictures of their child’s spinal surgery. I don’t want to straight up block these people or even unfollow them as they might have questions I can answer sometime in the future, like I’m good at helping dads get used to the idea of cathetering their daughters without feeling like they’re a total weirdo. So when I see someone who is going through trauma like this sharing a picture and asking for emotional support I don’t want to block them. I tap “hide” which then promptly does… absolutely nothing. There is definitely a legitimate use case for the “hide” button where the two things you mentioned won’t really help.
998244353 4y ago
Oh god yes. Facebook and Messenger have so many such bugs, coupled with general slowness and clunkiness. Having 80k employees would sound so much more reasonable if all of Meta's services worked really well; right now it seems more like they do the bare minimum. I don't know if these things become fundamentally hard to fix at their scale, like it's possible that a "hide" button becomes too hard to properly implement if your feed suggestion algorithm has to handle millions of users at the same time. It's possible, but sounds hard to believe, because a lot of the quality has degraded in only a couple of years, and they haven't become orders of magnitude larger in that time. Of course, it would be very reasonable to claim that they simply don't care. But their websites do keep changing, so it's also not like they have decided to halt development of this part of the UX and simply focused on doing advertising right. Personally, I still suspect that regardless of their motives, there's a high degree of corporate inefficiency.
wincy 4y ago
Update: I think Zuckerberg or someone with some swat at Facebook is watching over us here because this morning my friend posted a picture of a scary spider and I hit “hide” and wouldn’t you know, it actually hid. Maybe it’s a coincidence but I doubt it! Regardless thanks to whomever at Facebook who got it fixed.

by wincy 4y ago

flerchin 4y ago

I wonder if that "phantom message" was intentional. It surely got you, and me, to check the Facebook messenger app several times.

e-clinton 4y ago

The unfollow feature works great. And so does the unfriend.

lupire 4y ago
As does the Super Unfriend feature, which comes in two flavors, indefinite and permanent.
wincy 4y ago
Honestly a lot of the pictures are people in a spina bifida parents support group sharing pictures of their child’s spinal surgery. I don’t want to straight up block these people or even unfollow them as they might have questions I can answer sometime in the future, like I’m good at helping dads get used to the idea of cathetering their daughters without feeling like they’re a total weirdo. So when I see someone who is going through trauma like this sharing a picture and asking for emotional support I don’t want to block them. I tap “hide” which then promptly does… absolutely nothing. There is definitely a legitimate use case for the “hide” button where the two things you mentioned won’t really help.

998244353 4y ago

Oh god yes. Facebook and Messenger have so many such bugs, coupled with general slowness and clunkiness. Having 80k employees would sound so much more reasonable if all of Meta's services worked really well; right now it seems more like they do the bare minimum. I don't know if these things become fundamentally hard to fix at their scale, like it's possible that a "hide" button becomes too hard to properly implement if your feed suggestion algorithm has to handle millions of users at the same time. It's possible, but sounds hard to believe, because a lot of the quality has degraded in only a couple of years, and they haven't become orders of magnitude larger in that time. Of course, it would be very reasonable to claim that they simply don't care. But their websites do keep changing, so it's also not like they have decided to halt development of this part of the UX and simply focused on doing advertising right. Personally, I still suspect that regardless of their motives, there's a high degree of corporate inefficiency.

wincy 4y ago

Update: I think Zuckerberg or someone with some swat at Facebook is watching over us here because this morning my friend posted a picture of a scary spider and I hit “hide” and wouldn’t you know, it actually hid. Maybe it’s a coincidence but I doubt it! Regardless thanks to whomever at Facebook who got it fixed.