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Messenger on Android is genuinely one of the buggiest pieces of software I have ever used. It astounds me that people will take technical advice and use softwar
by mvdtnz 4y ago
Messenger on Android is genuinely one of the buggiest pieces of software I have ever used. It astounds me that people will take technical advice and use software libraries developed by this company that delivers such poor quality software.
Just a few of the issues off the top of my head. Most of these have been ongoing for several months and some for several years.
* Type something into the input box, quick-switch to another app, then switch back to messenger. Your half-finished message is now gone. But if you kill messenger completely then bring it back, your message is back - even if you have sent and received dozens of messages in the interim.
* The sticker selector has been completely broken for at least 3 years. It shows the grey smiley face placeholder image for every sticker pack apart from your bitmoji rip-off pack. This bug has been around long enough that I have verified it happens on 3 different phones from different manufactures (because I have upgraded twice in the time this bug has existed).
* The recently used emoji category may as well be using a random number generator to select what goes in there.
* The share menu from other apps sometimes shows Messenger twice. This doesn't happen for any other apps for me.
* Custom notification sounds on a chat will randomly revert back to the hideous default sound.
* Images I post will display properly until one other person sends a message to the chat, then will turn white and not come back unless I hard-stop the app and bring it back. It's not clear if this is occurring for other people in the chat, but I've only seen it happen to my own images and not others'.
* Quite often someone will post a picture to the chat and instead of a picture I will see them post the message "XXXX posted a photo". The only way to see the photo is to hard-kill the app and bring it back.
There are so many more. Terrible software.
- ipsum2 4y agoThe article is about the iOS version of Messenger.
- mvdtnz 4y agoYes you can see I started my comment with the words "Messenger on Android". Hope that clears things up.
- ipsum2 4y agocommenting about Messenger on Android when the article is about code-based iOS optimizations is not really relevant.
- mvdtnz 4y agoMy comment was about the quality of the output from Facebook engineers.
- sundvor 4y agoThe Android version is pure rubbish. My favourite thing is perhaps how they auto convert everything to emoji even on my (S21U) mobile where my keyboard has direct emoji input. I like my text based smileys dammit - please let me keep them! :-)