Anyone Beta testing new FB app?

Didn't know there was a beta app. Got links to news articles, link to the app perhaps?

 

Is it still overly aggressive with app permissions? Does it still kill your battery?

Facebook has always been a well designed app and slick to use. It's all that other stuff I don't like.

 

Id love if they totally redesigned it and gave it a nice clean G+ look (since none of my friends will make the switch to g+ lol)

 

It still sucks in landscape.

 

Im one of these people (i dont know how rare i am tbh lol) who only uses landscape when taking/viewing pics, watching vids. Im just not in the habit of using landscape mode to browse or use social sites.
Maybe its because i dont type in landscape. I still use an oldskool keypad lol View attachment 57885

 

I'm running it. It seems decent, but the only real issues I had with the non-beta version isn't something that's exclusive to mobile: top stories vs. most recent.

I want to know whose hare-brained idea it was to add top stories and not make the toggle PERSISTENT. It's annoying to have to change the setting every.single.time I open the app, and at least once a day on the browser version.

I don't care what Facebook thinks my "top stories" are, I just want to see my feed in chronological order.

And they seem to be ignoring the many, many requests to change this on the beta group on Facebook.

*sigh*

 

Thats the #1 thing thats put me off fb lately lol

 

If you use a Transformer tablet with a keybaord dock, you pretty much have to use it in landscape as the tablet docks with the keyboard in landscape. FB does landscape poorly. Google+ does landscape really well. Many apps don't even have a landscape orientation, so those are pretty much useless on my tablet.

 

Yeah that must be annoying man. I suppose it is quite a niche device though :thumbup:

 

I wrote to many developers complaining about the lack of landscape mode. My banking app is the worse. The developer told me to use the mobile site.

If you do a lot of typing, the Transformer with keyboard dock is an excellent device. That is the reason I got it over and above all other tablets. I think it is still the best keyboard dock and its been out for over 2 years.

 

in what way is it fixed?

 

I won't consider this truly fixed until "Top Stories" is completely removed. I don't trust Facebook's algorithms to be able to determine what a "top story" is for ME.