Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App
by Scubabear68 on Thursday September 14, 2023 @12:57PM
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I have a totally opposite view. FB at least is an "easy" problem in that it's a free product that's mostly casual use. The end result I see is that FB is massively inconsistent, you can literally see different parts of the FB system having a different view on a moderately heavily commented post. Comments will pop in and out of existence on a given device, and different people will have wildly different views for up to a few minutes. If accuracy mattered FB would be just awful.
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Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App
by YouSuck2 on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:08PM
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It's called eventual consistency...
Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App
by ceejayoz on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:16PM
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No, it's something newer; last year or so. They show "top comments", with a "view all" option, but that "view all" option will often say there's 49 comments and zero show up, even on an old post.
The Graph API has also fallen apart, with their solution being to close the bug submission tool for most issue types. The "replacement" is a discussion forum where no Facebook employees visit, most posts have zero responses, and no issue tracking whatsoever.
Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App
by nebula8804 on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:51PM
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Seems like Facebook is more in maintenance mode vs Instagram. Lets not also forget they made a massive push into Metaverse so I'm sure engineering was stretched thin on their other platforms.
Wasn't Graph API going away because of that whole Cambridge Analyitica scandal?
Re:Threads: Meta’s Newest Social App
by thrusong on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:36PM
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This actually seems like a great way to say it: maintenance mode. I'm really shocked at how badly facebook.com runs in Firefox latest on an M1 MacBook Air. It's completely broken and has been since they've launched this React version.