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Agreed, this is incredibly user-hostile. As a pro-tip, you can get past it on web by telling your device to request the desktop website. They have a responsive

by yojo 4y ago

Agreed, this is incredibly user-hostile. As a pro-tip, you can get past it on web by telling your device to request the desktop website. They have a responsive design, so it’s actually quite usable. Just emphasizes how slimy the push to the app is, though.

mattmanser 4y ago
Worse still is that right now my web version is telling me I have 4 messages, but my desktop one is saying I have none. So not only hostile but incompetent.
- fwn 4y ago
  > not only hostile but incompetent A broken feature on the mobile version nudges towards app installation, a broken feature on the desktop version does not. This means that there is some benefit for Facebook to not fix the mobile version. If a bug persists and benefits the company, we should - by principle - never assume it to be a bug. We see the same right now with reddit, where old interfaces slowly (and clearly intentionally) crumble away, permanently signalling to the user that it is time to switch to one of the interfaces with a higher ad density.
gnicholas 4y ago
Love the tip! For me (iOS/Chrome), this seems to briefly display the newest message but then it tries to load all prior messages with that person. Am I doing something wrong? At least I can now see who sent the message!
- yojo 4y ago
  Huh, strange. On iOS/Safari, tapping the messenger icon then requesting the desktop site takes me to my messages inbox. Surprising that it varies between browsers.
  - gnicholas 4y ago
    It does that for me, but then doesn’t display the latest message, or present a way to respond. Perhaps it’s because I’m on a 13 mini, which has less screen real estate? I tried rotating to landscape but that didn’t help.