[MMike]

So here's a question (I know I will regret having asked)...

But is facebook as a software "thing" well built?

I always find it does weird, quirky things. The latest example is the stupid notifier that my wife "had changed her profile picture". She actually did it last night. But it says that she only did it in the last 5 mins. I realize "cool story bro" and all that.

But why would it do that? I'm just curious, from a coding/software point of view, is Facebook well put together?

 

[insanitylevel9]

all i know is i hope people get board of it soon, im tired to always having to check mine.... ive only had one for like 6 months.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

So here's a question (I know I will regret having asked)...

But is facebook as a software "thing" well built?

I always find it does weird, quirky things. The latest example is the stupid notifier that my wife "had changed her profile picture". She actually did it last night. But it says that she only did it in the last 5 mins. I realize "cool story bro" and all that.

But why would it do that? I'm just curious, from a coding/software point of view, is Facebook well put together?

I have observed this sort of behavior and am guessing that they have a distributed database that gets out of synchronization at times.

 

[IH8Rice]

I always find it does weird, quirky things. The latest example is the stupid notifier that my wife "had changed her profile picture". She actually did it last night. But it says that she only did it in the last 5 mins. I realize "cool story bro" and all that.

on the top of the News Feed, you can click on "top news" or "most recent." it was probably on "top news" that your wife changed her picture.


their new "theater" viewing for pictures blows btw

 

[MMike]

Yes....photo view sucks.

And no...the actual time stamp on the 'event" was off.

And actually just now, Luc and I were hurling abuse at each other, and the page repeatedly got stuck when it was maybe 25% loaded.

 

[Toshi]

Its codebase is always in flux. It's not robust by any means, but is always evolving/being broken, for what it's worth.

 

[Nick]

re: the sucky photo view.

when you click any photo and it launches, hit F5 to refresh and it will relaunch the old photo viewer. (I hate the new one too)

 

[IH8Rice]

you can also take out "&theater" from the url if the refresh doesnt work.

 

[PatBranch]

The new picture thing does suck. It doesn't look it's even part of facebook. Are there any firefox extensions that let you remove/add parts of a url for specific sites? I looked, but couldn't find any.

 

[IH8Rice]

The new picture thing does suck. It doesn't look it's even part of facebook. Are there any firefox extensions that let you remove/add parts of a url for specific sites? I looked, but couldn't find any.

there is a script for Chrome to get rid of the "theater," but havent looked for FF.

 

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