New Facebook

Gavin Scott · Tue 11 Oct, 2011 13.21

Erk. I'm hearing bad things about the revised facebook app for ipad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15256901

But I'll download it and give it a shot.

Sput · Tue 11 Oct, 2011 13.23

Speaking as a developer, the only bug I've noticed is the lack of a "cancel" button when you try and take a picture. You actually have to take the bugger to make the popup thing go away.

Gavin Scott · Tue 11 Oct, 2011 13.26

I like it!

Pete · Tue 01 Nov, 2011 22.01

aside from the horrific performance of the new profile (for those who have enabled it) is anyone else finding the ticker is now using the same "any order but the order you'd expect" logic than the news feed uses?

lukey · Tue 01 Nov, 2011 22.42

Pete wrote:aside from the horrific performance of the new profile (for those who have enabled it) is anyone else finding the ticker is now using the same "any order but the order you'd expect" logic than the news feed uses?

It's odd that this has only started to happen so noticeably in the last few days. The only completely guessed logic I can come up with is that for a period of testing the ticker was sitting in some sandbox, but now as it rolls out it's architected in the same very scalable but perceptibly inferior 'eventual consistency' model the rest of the site uses (in a nutshell, no given node can be assured to have a complete view of the data at any point in time) hence why things appear to drop and re-appear on refreshes, become temporarily duplicated, or anachronistic.

Not that I know shit.

Pete · Tue 01 Nov, 2011 23.16

Well it's shit

Pete · Tue 15 Nov, 2011 00.07

oh I see they've introduced a *NEW FEATURE* where one can get the newsfeed to run chronologically. Magnificent innovation on their part there I must say.

Nick Harvey · Tue 15 Nov, 2011 10.33

My thoughts exactly as I switched the feature (back) on.