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I uninstalled the Facebook app, because it literally makes me depressed. Messenger stopped working. I wasn't able to log in on Messenger (it just kept cycling

I uninstalled the Facebook app, because it literally makes me depressed. Messenger stopped working. I wasn't able to log in on Messenger (it just kept cycling around the same 3 login pages). I had to reinstall Facebook to get it working. So, either: 1. Facebook developers are so shit at their job that they can't build and test a simple login page that works. or 2. Facebook uses dark UI patterns to keep people using its products even when they explicitly don't want to. Obviously it's 2. But what a dystopian nightmare. Facebook devs, how do you sleep at night?

shiroiuma 3y ago
I've never had the Facebook app installed on my phone (Android). Messenger Lite worked great, until recently. Now that they've shut that down, I'm using regular Messenger, which sucks, but I finally got it working by forcing a stop and clearing the cache. You really shouldn't need the Facebook app on your phone to use Messenger in my experience, but who knows what kind of shenanigans they're pulling. I seriously wonder what the Messenger app is doing. It's far larger than Messenger Lite was (way more than double), yet it's essentially the same thing: a chat app with video and voice chat. The full-blown app also adds Dark Mode (the only improvement I've found), and some silly sticker crap. So WTF else is going on in that app to need all that storage space?