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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas anyone had issues with Facebook loading over the past couple of weeks?*
(Cross posting from the Lounge)
The News Feed frequently stops after one or two posts--usually after a "Sponsored Ad" or "Similar to Posts You've Interacted With" bot post thrown in my feed. Other times, it will be completely blank with a "Welcome to Facebook" message.
This happens regardless of whether I'm on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Safari. It doesn't seem to be browser specific.
This will go on for up to an hour or two, and then everything will work normally for a while. And then it will happen again.
*Before anyone answers this question, please, no high and mighty "Why are you still on Facebook?" responses, please. Yes, I know about Facebook's problems. I still like the social aspect of it all and I like to participate on it. (As an aside, you can also substitute "the Catholic Church" for "Facebook" in those last two sentences and it would pretty much be the same thing for me.) So I don't really want to hear about long winded responses about how you quit Facebook and how you're such a better person now.**
**The same goes for eating fast food and drinking soda. (Both of which I do occasionally, not habitually, and I refuse to apologize for any that, either.)
Srkdqltr
(6,291 posts)Also my Angry birds would not load. What was going on?
Yonnie3
(17,442 posts)click on the notification icon when it shows notifications and it's 50:50 something will show up in less than a few minutes.
set it to view posts in chronological order and it can't seem to get more than a dozen posts up.
click to see comments and nothing happens.
I use Facebook to keep up with musician friends and acquaintances I used to work with and with some family. Photos of gigs, pets, and oddball news as well.
I no longer discuss things on Facebook other than nostalgia or the odd humorous quip.
The app on my Android seems to do better than the Web interface, but I despise the tiny format on the phone.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)And their attempts to force 'top stories' is also causing problems if you prefer 'recent stories' (getting this from the Fluff Busting ( FB ) Purity page, one of the banes of FB's existance)--they posted this:
It looks like Facebook is experiencing server problems across its multiple sites, facebook instagram and whatsapp. lets hope they fix it soon.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)most recently yesterday. Only two posts at a time would show up in my news feed, and one was usually an ad.
Last night things were normal again.
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)dweller
(23,640 posts)has also happened in the past, I asked FB help then and never got an answer, asked friends and they had no clue ... it cleared up by itself before, and has happened in the past more than once...
this morning I attempted to reload the feed and a screen popped up asking me to agree/disagree to statements whether I thought FB was a good experience or some such... close window was the option I chose
I did recently unfollow all Bernie groups... they had become so numerous n my feed and I needed a break from it... I never joined these groups just liked a Bernie posts or two and then I was getting swamped with them...
similar to my email getting random daily post from Dem sites and candidates that I've never given my email addy to, but I get their msgs... delete, since I can find usually what I want here or will find their websites when needed...
yahoo mail sends all kamela Harris post to spam, I didn't
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SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)They get overloaded sometimes while they are downloading/selling your data
just in case