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by moxiemk1 5316 days ago
This page, like several other parts of Facebook, is completely inoperable for me. Something in the page dies before it gets to the <body> tag.

This is perhaps irrelevant to the topic, but it's really frustrating that there's basically no way for me to do anything about this. I've waded through their highly unhelpful help pages to submit bug reports for all the things I've found not to work, but this has been the case for months.

I assume that I managed to be a part of an A/B test that causes some really inoperable things to happen? Regardless, it sort of reinforces my negative opinions of Facebook engineering when something can consistently break for me to the point that it renders no page.
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code_duck 5316 days ago
Usually when people say stuff like this, I assume they're clueless and have borked their browser somehow and simply need to turn off some add ons and clear their cache, etc. However, I have all sorts of problems with Facebook also. Sometimes photos are suddenly 'unavailable', when it's not. When I click on a search, it's like their JS thinks the page successfully changed, but it hasn't changed the visible content and it will stay on that page forever. Now and then, after I sign in every action I take greets me with a popup saying 'Log in to continue' and I can't do anything (signing in again doesn't solve it). If I, someone highly tech savvy, have these problems I can only imagine how confused the public is.
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swang 5316 days ago
I've been trying to submit a bug with photo albums thumbnails disappearing while you upload from your iphone (seems to be some kind of memory problem or redraw not updating) and some suggestions for the UI/UX (if you choose the wrong image to upload on your phone it takes 5 taps to choose another image rather than 2 taps) but I can't find a page anywhere to send in a bug report or ask for a UI change.
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