Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus...
by yason on Saturday June 04, 2016 @04:55AM
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The mobile Facebook website worked fine with messages. You could see whether there were new messages and you could read them and reply to them. You could even chat a bit albeit not as conveniently as on a laptop or a messaging app such as Hangouts or Whatsapp. But it was just enough to keep you connected when needed.
Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus...
by lucb1e on Saturday June 04, 2016 @09:02AM
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More likely the chat team couldn't read your contacts through your web browser and decided to do something about it.
Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus...
by codeka on Saturday June 04, 2016 @06:57AM
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> But I hope you can imagine why a chat team does care if a technology doesn't allow them to send timely and reliable notifications.
Sure, that's why they have the app. But it's not a reason to completely turn off messaging from the website. Heck, they could even turn off chrome notifications completely and the website would still be completely functional.
But I hope you can imagine why a chat team does care if a technology doesn't allow them to send timely and reliable notifications.
It is often better to have no feature than a bad feature. I've never used the mobile web messenger, but if it is unreliable, only works in a few browsers, it makes sense to remove the product.