I suspect people will keep coming back because people are pretty used to internet services being flaky in general? The internet is not a shining pedestal of uptime.

Another possibility is people expect developers to fix such fatal flaws and thus wait some time until the app may have been updated in the background.

Or it could be possible that a normal user doesn't know how to resolve the error, so they ignore the app until a later time that it works.

I installed Face Slim to my girlfriend when it happened for the 3rd time...

I guess they forgot about me. I use iOS but since the app takes so long to load I just stopped using it. I consider it to be a bit heavy.

Well this is one clue why - http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

Apparently (in 2015 at least), the iOS app had over 18,000 classes. There was even a presentation with a FB dev bragging about it's 'scale' tho suspiciously it's been scrubbed from the web

Something I don't get about this is that it seems to be largely just a web view - what are all those classes doing?

I'm surprised whenever I see anyone running Facebook for Android. I haven't in years. Unnecessarily resource intensive, buggy, and slow.

Overall, I can't fault them for this testing. It's understandable given the impact that Google could have on Facebook by dropping their app from the store.

That's what you say when you can't stop your app from crashing.

Note this article is over a year old.

My Xperia X came with the Facebook app pre-installed. I disabled it and I'm using the mobile site with Firefox and ublock. I think I still count as one that came back.

I made & deleted a profile on Facebook ysterday for branding a product. Yelp and google biz as well.

In my experience, it provides little value for startups except in narrow arenas (cause or nprofit/physical consumer product) and is a time sink.

It reminded me of what a pain it was and it was worth having an hour as a sunk cost. If you are raising, it provides a minimal amount of validation and credibility, but time is much better spent elsewhere

I always view Facebook in Chrome on Android. No need for an app. Another good reason to keep on keepin' on.

   I always view Facebook in Chrome on Android...

in an incognito window that is closed immediately afterward.

Remember, they mine your cookies for all sites.

Well to me it seems they've also been randomly breaking the web app. Besides the intentional off and on again Messanger functionality, I've seen random breakeages especially around posting. Maybe it's not intentional but knowing Facebook's manipulative history I wouldn't be surprised.

Use mbasic.facebook.com and messages work again. It's unusable on m.facebook.com due to the app store redirect to install Messenger.

I have switched from the Android app, to the web version on Firefox + uBlock ... I don't regret it at all

Label 2016, please...

Dance, monkey, dance.

Facebook lost me almost a decade ago because of their inane bullshit.

My iOS app has crashed several times in a row today. Hmmmm....

After a couple of crashes, I uninstalled mine.