Simple solution: don't chat on Facebook. Reply via the web interface and tell the other person to send you an email, SMS, or Google Hangouts message.
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
#72Help me understand - why is this so bad?
Some people don't want any Facebook software in their phones for legitimate privacy reasons.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#73I have stopped using Facebook (Twitter and everything social) half a decade ago. I don't use messaging apps and turn on my phone only when I really need to.
Result: more free time to do interesting and productive things and people aren't bothering me as much. I have taken control of my life and I'm not being pushed around to do things based on notifications or desire for artificial status(likes, retweet, stars). Stop using these services that sell your privacy, control your communication, make hostile changes and in the end do not care about you.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#74So rather than fixing the problems that result in users messaging via the mobile web app instead of the messenger app, they're just going to "solve" the problem by forcing users to use the messenger app? This is why Facebook as a company doesn't have high levels of consumer trust. This will bite them in the future. Once you lose that level of trust it is extremely difficult to gain back.
I'm not a FB fanboy or anything, but sometimes it is a good choice to free yourself from legacy tech burden and build for the future. The web (html documents fetched via http requests) were not built with mobile devices in mind, especially websockets. In the mobile era, all messaging is based on push notifications which must go through the device vendor (APNS or GCM), and trying to support the legacy tech in this lan…
Chrome and Firefox currently support push notifications with GCM https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API and this is a standard API other vendors are free to implement
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#75I dislike this change. I specifically only access Facebook on my phone via the web app because (1) it saves significant battery and (2) I absolutely do not want the popup bubbles during the work day from church and other social groups I am connected to on Facebook. Ultimately, all this means is that I will stop accessing Facebook Messenger on my phone all together. I will communicate with the people who matter most o…
you can turn off the bubbles...
Tyranny of the defaults goes both ways; If you're software doesn't have sane defaults, I will search for another.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#76Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
- you can't disable notifications You absolutely can mute conversations, tap the (i) at the top of each convo, very first menu option should be "Notifications". With you on everything else.
if i understand you correctly, that's muting conversations on a one-at-a-time basis, which is not the same as being able to globally disable notifications from the app
To add to the reply for Android, you can do this for iOS too if you use that.
Settings > messenger > notifications > toggle for allow notifications, or to modify them if you prefer.
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#78So rather than fixing the problems that result in users messaging via the mobile web app instead of the messenger app, they're just going to "solve" the problem by forcing users to use the messenger app? This is why Facebook as a company doesn't have high levels of consumer trust. This will bite them in the future. Once you lose that level of trust it is extremely difficult to gain back.
"Users were messaging via the web frontend, so we fixed the glitch."
Re: Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
#79I only use facebook over the browser when using my phone. The facebook applications request an appalling number of permissions... never mind the general intrusiveness and battery hogging.
Screw you Facebook.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
The conversations are not lost; they're stored on Facebook's servers. There are plenty of reasons to dislike the move, but this isn't one.
They are moved to where I no longer have access to them.
They remain accessible, same as always; The only thing that changes is the application you are using to look at the chat history.