**Please Note: Facebook is coming out with regular version updates that dont have genuine fixes or improvements, but they do hide their bad ratings temporarily.**
Ive been taking away stars as each new version comes out and continually reported bugs and flaws are still not fixed or properly addressed, and/or when the new version performs worse than the previous version. Looks like this app is going to be sitting at 1 star for a looooong time.
I like how videos now partially play before stopping at a random point and will not load or play any further. Great idea for a feature!
I also love the new randomly crash while viewing a photo album (not pictures, just the album) feature.
Why is there still a useless web browser built in?
It wont play videos.
It wont load pictures on a page, unless its an ad-those load first and perfectly.
It takes forever to load anything thats not an ad.
The Open in Safari option was removed from easy access, you should just copy the link so you can go open it in a real browser.
Any kind of GIF will generally crash the browser which crashes the whole app.
Heres a radical idea: Ditch the garbage built-in Facebook web browser and just send the clicked link to the devices default browser. Shouldnt be that hard since other apps do it by default.
Its really confusing how the Facebook app keeps getting worse with each update.
Another new update (11/19/15) and none of the issues seems to have been addressed, as usual. There also is no info on what was fixed, as usual.
Another update (12/2015) and now Facebook has decided to remove many options for reporting posts including fake accounts, racism, and hate speech. Its not like they actually paid attention to the reports anyway since so many people are allowed to post the vilest thing and Facebook is completely ok with it.
2/2016, Reporting options still removed, rule violating content still not being removed after being reported and reviewed by facebook.
3/2016 Still no genuine improvements.
4/2016 Another update no genuine improvements seen.
6/2016 More of the same nothing.
7/2016 More of the same nothing.
8/2016 More of the same nothing. Built in browser now has open in Safari back, and the built in browser still is garbage.
9/2016 Multiple "updates" of the same nothing. New "feature" if you type "too fast" the app increasingly lags behind your typing, then crashes.
10/2016 More updates, no improvements. More options for reporting posts and profiles for rules violations have been removed.
12/2016 Along with the usual non-improvements there is a new "feature": The rules no longer apply to all users. Facebook now allows some users to post sexual nudity and sex acts, drug use, stalk and/or harass other users, and post hate speech. Reports of things that are clear rules violations are now cleared by Facebook as not violating the rules and allowed to stay up. Another new "feature", companies can block users from following, liking, and commenting on the companys page/posts, and the company can still force their ads show up in your feed. Also if you have a company blocked, they can still have their ads forced into your feed. No word from Facebook on why this is allowed.
1/2017 Still no improvements, still no answer to why the issues listed above are allowed.
2/2017 Multiple updates.
Still more of the same.
3/2017 More updates, no improvements.
4/2017 More updates, no improvements. More crashing and the usual silence for Facebook on all issues.
5/2017 More updates, no improvements. More options for reporting posts and profiles for rules violations have been removed. Even more crashing.