Facebook for iOS hits version 10.0 with 'write now, post later' feature, speed enhancements
Ubiquitous social network Facebook on Wednesday issued an update to its flagship iOS app, bringing a new feature that automatically publishes posts created when a user's cell signal is weak or their phone is not connected to a data network.
Facebook version 10.0 continues the company's odd version numbering scheme as the changes made in this latest iteration are far less significant than some recent point updates.
The most substantial addition to the app comes in a new feature that lets users concoct draft posts while offline and upload them when a network connection becomes available. Facebook says the function kicks in when a data connection is weak or the device is in Airplane Mode.
Additionally, version 10.0 allows users to preview draft posts prior to publishing and remove unwanted "suggested links" to books, movies and songs when sharing status updates.
Finally, the update brings unnamed improvements that speed up News Feed loading times, especially when the app is used on older devices.
Facebook version 10.0 is a free 59.4MB download from the App Store.
Facebook version 10.0 continues the company's odd version numbering scheme as the changes made in this latest iteration are far less significant than some recent point updates.
The most substantial addition to the app comes in a new feature that lets users concoct draft posts while offline and upload them when a network connection becomes available. Facebook says the function kicks in when a data connection is weak or the device is in Airplane Mode.
Additionally, version 10.0 allows users to preview draft posts prior to publishing and remove unwanted "suggested links" to books, movies and songs when sharing status updates.
Finally, the update brings unnamed improvements that speed up News Feed loading times, especially when the app is used on older devices.
Facebook version 10.0 is a free 59.4MB download from the App Store.
Comments
Does it also delay Facebook posting until you're done driving in North Carolina?
Updated on my iPhone, the "top stories vs recent posts" setting usually at the top of the timeline that always seems to mysteriously set itself back to "top stories" no matter how many times you set it back to "most recent" is now entirely missing. Ugh, why does FB try to shove the "top stories " thing so hard? No one I know wants it.
It's now buried way in there...
Tap on the More
Scroll down until you find Feeds
Go the whole way to the bottom of the first section. That's where you'll find Most Recent
GRRRR!!! I hate Facebook more with every update!
Facebook .. how about flushing the highly irritating 'People You May Know' on the News Feed down the pot. While I'm about it, make display of the Chat pane on the iPad app that takes up 1/3 of the limited screen space, optional. In short, hire some staff who have half a clue about good user interface design.
Dammit... really?
Fuuuuuu.....
Hey Facebook, how about a version that keeps posts in chronological order!!!!
It's now buried way in there...
Tap on the More
Scroll down until you find Feeds
Go the whole way to the bottom of the first section. That's where you'll find Most Recent
GRRRR!!! I hate Facebook more with every update!
Got my own major gripes, however tech and logistics wise, they are facing some thorny issues....
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/16/5620300/facebooks-friend-problem
Use facebook's paper app. All posts are in chronological order.
Except that paper doesn't have every single item on it's main page that the Facebook newsfeed has.
Have they removed messaging? If they have I'm not upgrading
No, not yet.
And it's only available for Americans.... Facebook just can't get it right. This Top stories/news feed thing kills me. Let me have the Most Recent stuff and be done with it.
Exactly. It's called a News FEED because it's supposed to be a feed of everything that comes down the line.
I just opened up the Facebook app and here are the first things I see:
Someone updated their profile picture - 21 minutes ago
A status update - 13 hours ago
Another post - from YESTERDAY
WTF?
And now they make it MORE difficult to simply see a chronological list of posts.
Twitter and Instagram show you what happened in the order it happened. That's the way it should to be.
I know Facebook thinks they're being clever with their algorithm.... but they're not....
That article is then followed by an appropriate comment:
Can't believe people stil use FB "There's nothing social about Social Media" Though Princeton University says 80% of its current users will be gone by 2018: (11 page .pdf)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4208v1.pdf
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/facebook-princeton-researchers-infectious-disease
They're delivering sponsored content and favoring popular stuff. It has nothing to do with chronology or "news feeds". Just like they utterly violated the word "friend", they've utterly defeated the term "news feed". Shock. Awe. They're an advertising seller and we are their product. They don't care what the users want or think and feel. They only care what works best for ad impressions.
Just like Google and its growing ever more irrelevant search results.
So glad Appleinsider keeps me posted about Facebook updates. So relevant.
Oh yeah.... I know Facebook is an advertising company and that they make most (all?) of their money from ads.
What I'm saying is this:
Make the experience enjoyable in order to keep me coming back. Facebook needs eyeballs to see their ads... but pissed-off eyeballs aren't good thing. I know corporations don't care about us... but they still need us.
In my example earlier... there were ads in-between those posts. That's fine! I don't mind ads.
But for the love of god... please let me see posts in the proper order.
BAD
Old post
AD
Older post
AD
Even older post
AD
etc...
GOOD
Post from 1 minute ago
AD
Post from 2 minutes ago
AD
Post from 3 minutes ago
AD
etc...
Again... Facebook can continue to show ads. That's how most of the Internet works. But let me see the content as it happened.
Blogs are chronological. Twitter and Instagram are chronological. It's not a difficult concept.
Facebook will show me ads regardless... and I'm fine with that. I just don't see why they have to show me a seemingly random order of posts.
Exactly. I don't mind the ads, just put everything in order!
**ding ding ding** perhaps that's why they screw up the order so people will complain about that than complain about the ads.