Last week Kristen Nicole, the other writer of this site, temporarily lost almost 1,000 messages from her Facebook inbox. This week other users have been reporting the issue including Stefanos Kofopoulos who received multiple errors stating that “Sorry, the contents of this thread are temporarily unavailable. Please check back later.” Many users have hundreds if not thousands of messages now on Facebook and are becoming increasingly reliant on the service for daily communication.
While Facebook continues to expand to the rest of the web, they’ve yet to expand their inbox functionality. While the company added search capabilities to the inbox, that’s about all they’ve added in years. Many active users have been asking for POP3 support but Facebook hasn’t yielded to their demands so far. One addition they did make is the ability to reply directly to messages from within your email which is definitely a step in the right direction.
Personally, the only messages I’m able to respond to are email messages and having to go to Facebook to reply to other messages can be pretty annoying. Then again, the only people complaining are the “Facebook power users”. Aren’t these the people that Facebook should be catering to though? While I haven’t been having inbox errors like others are reporting, I definitely have plenty of personal inbox issues.
Have you been having Facebook inbox issues as well? What problems have you been having? How do you think Facebook could improve their overall inbox experience?
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I had not seen that in particular. However, I did go through my Inbox and manually deleted over 43 PAGES of old mail. It was a painful task. It started because my Facebook mobile app was not sending messages I could reply to without going to Facebook in the mobile browser (annoying).
Comment by Nakeva N. Corothers — December 29, 2008 @ 11:04 am
I've had a different issue but somewhat related and have reported it to fb. Messages that I receive from my fb mobile app indicate all incoming messages as responses. The subject line will read Re: instead of Subject:. Hopefully fb mobile can fix this app error. Very strange.
Comment by Brian Stephens — November 7, 2009 @ 8:52 am
I have been trying to access my inbox for the last 5 days and it basically dosen't exist. There are no people or should I say friends in the inbox file and I can not collect the messages there. It is all blank……what the hell!!!!!
I am getting pissed off!
Comment by sue — December 12, 2009 @ 8:40 am
My FACEBOOK IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY. I CANT GET IN TO MY INBOX OR RECIEVE ANY OF MY FRIENDS PHOTOS.
Comment by Torzha paul — December 30, 2009 @ 10:47 am
I can't post any comments, or get in my inbox!
Comment by s.mccall — January 22, 2010 @ 6:48 am
My inbox always indicates 1 extra message. It's been there for months, because I cannot delete it. It can't be opened either. It says this:
"Sorry, the contents of this thread are temporarily unavailable."
Comment by creamcheese — February 6, 2010 @ 3:52 am
the inbox on my toolbar for face book is not there any more i cant seem to find any way tyo replace it so i can read my messagers
thank you alice wheeler
Comment by ancelwheeler — February 16, 2010 @ 1:33 pm
My inbox also has had a "Sorry, the contents of this tread are temporarily unavailable" message for months!
When is Facebook going to run a program that cleans up all these stuck messages????
Comment by cbricker — February 16, 2010 @ 5:14 pm
inbox is blank
Comment by terry — March 18, 2010 @ 11:37 am
my mobile facebook has been temporarily unavailable for months. Why?
Comment by julie — March 26, 2010 @ 9:05 am
"My inbox also has had a “Sorry, the contents of this tread are temporarily unavailable” message for months!
When is Facebook going to run a program that cleans up all these stuck messages????"
Here it is April and I posted this comment back in February… does anyone read this blog????
I still have "sorry, the contents of this thread are temporarily unavailable" When will this be fixed?
Comment by cbricker — April 20, 2010 @ 5:36 pm
I, too, have had an empty, "unavailable thread" message in my inbox for MONTHS (at least 6). I keep submitting screenshots of it to the FB help center and it goes nowhere.
I'm really ticked off that such a simple thing won't/can't be fixed.
Comment by Laura — June 6, 2010 @ 8:31 am
My inbox also has had a “Sorry, the contents of this tread are temporarily unavailable” message for months!
When is Facebook going to run a program that cleans up all these stuck messages????”
I still have “sorry, the contents of this thread are temporarily unavailable” When will this be fixed?
Comment by aditya sharma — July 14, 2010 @ 7:25 am
I've had this "sorry the contents of this thread are temporarily unavailable" for over a year showing 1 extra inbox message that just won't go away. I've reported it, but still hangs in there like a hair on a biscuit!
Comment by annie — November 10, 2010 @ 7:24 pm
My In Box Have Sorry, the contents of this thread are temporarily unavailable. How Can I Delet it ???
Comment by Ron — March 9, 2011 @ 5:19 pm
Can someone please tell me why I keep getting kicked out of facebook and being told to login again this is happening every time I am on facebook at least five or six times
Comment by Sherry Shabatura — June 1, 2011 @ 7:13 pm