And I couldn't be happier. I discovered Messenger as "FB chat without all the distractions" (and much snappier); and seeing that it gets prioritized (instead of being an alternative way) is, for me, a good thing.
Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
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Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#142People follow the path of least resistance and that path will not be Messenger, but something else, like Google hangouts.
Granted, it's been a while since I used hangouts, but surely that'll not be the path of least resistance. It's still a crap, web only interface? And google just launced Allo to kill video chats in hangouts, so I guess there's nothing left to save?
It'd be a good time for Duck Duck Go to revive it's XMPP server, and give it some polish, IMNHO.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#143This is awful. I refuse to have the Facebook app on my phone, and obviously refuse to have messenger too. The last thing I want is more of my xommunications and data owned by that company. Fortunately I can do perfectly well without reading my messages on the web browser. I hope this decision marks an inflexion point for the company
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#144Now it's going to be much harder to send messages from your friend's phone when your phone dies. Before you could use an incognito tab, and now you have to log out of the Messenger app entirely and log in as another user.
Thank you for bringing up this point - I've often thought about it before, but I didn't immediately think of the connection here. Just another reason why these kinds of changes are a bad idea. It might not be that often that you're without your device (battery died, stolen, forgotten), but when that happens not having a great fallback is really annoying. This goes for all kinds of apps and services, not just fb messaging.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#145That's not true. You still can access the conversations from a browser on Android.
- press the chat icon
- wait for Google Play to open
- switch back to your browser
- press the "X" on the "Your conversations are moved to Messanger" dialog
- select the person you want to chat with
- wait for Google Play to open again
- switch back to your browser
Proof that it works: http://i.imgur.com/29BoF8V.png
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Practical enough for me. The only thing I use Facebook for is to say "Thank you" when folks wish me a happy birthday on my "wall". For literally everything else, the friends and family worth talking to have gotten the message that I'm not reliably reachable on Facebook and therefore should be reached by other means (and if they're worth talking to, they should already have my phone number and/or email address). It's…
> The only thing I use Facebook for is to say "Thank you" when folks wish me a happy birthday on my "wall". You can fix that by removing your birthday from Facebook. I did that one year and it turned out as expected, people only wish you happy birthday on Facebook, because Facebook more or less tells them to.
The other way to solve this is to set your birthday to an incorrect date; that way you don't have to feel bad about not saying thanks.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#147> At the moment, you can just dismiss the notice and go about your business. Hah, if only it were that easy. When viewing messages in Chrome for Android, I get redirected to Messenger on the Play Store when I close the overlay. Then the Play Store opens again when I tap on a conversation. Screw you, Facebook.
And God forbid you use different 'people' profiles on your computer - all of a sudden you're getting 5 push notifications instead of 1
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#148That's not true. You still can access the conversations from a browser on Android. - press the chat icon - wait for Google Play to open - switch back to your browser - press the "X" on the "Your conversations are moved to Messanger" dialog - select the person you want to chat with - wait for Google Play to open again - switch back to your browser Proof that it works: http://i.imgur.com/29BoF8V.png
There is an easier way. Before you click on chat, from chrome preferences choose"request desktop site"
Click chat icon. Profit
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#149Brilliant. So much for being able to use Facebook on a non-Android device.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#150If fb can't support basic browser based text chat they have a major lack of talent. If it's costing them much to support they have serious financial problems.
I don't think that either is true so I guess they just want to sniff around my phone. Sorry fb, not today.