It appears as though Facebook is having some problems with handling their newsfeed. It appears that nobody’s newsfeed has been updated since yesterday. Jeremy Wagstaff first reported the failur on his blog. For those that are addicted to their newsfeed, there is no news for you today unfortunately! Is this a sign that Facebook is already making changes to the mini-feed filtering that we reported about last night?
Probably not, but if so that would be an insanely quick turnaround. I’m not sure the last time that my Facebook newsfeed wasn’t working but then again, checking out my newsfeed may have become so ingrained in my daily life that I stopped paying attention to it. Whatever the case, the newsfeed is not updating and users around the globe are going crazy! To the people that noticed their newsfeed not working, I have a solution: take a short break from Facebook!
The newsfeed has become the central feature for Facebook, informing users of what’s going on in their entire social graph. For Facebook’s core feature to go down is substantial. The pages appear to be cached though so I am confident that Facebook is working hard to resolve the issue. When did Facebook’s newsfeed become a valuable part of your daily content consumption? Do you read more Facebook newsfeed or traditional news sources?
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I had a day without updates, followed by a brief update overnight and no more updates since. The only new news I'm getting on that page is in the mini "status updates" bit with your friends' last 3 updates in it.I notice that the little tick/cross icons next to news items have gone for a burton as well. It's hard to say if they've decided against them permanently or if they've just gone on holiday. The same goes for the FOAF suggestions feature which seemingly vanished on Sunday UK time.
Comment by Sahmeepee — April 15, 2008 @ 7:33 am
Yeah, I've noticed my newsfeed no longer has the "thumbs up / X" icons in the upper right – a sample screen capture demonstrates this. It's really a shame, since I use that red X to hide people's inane stuff that still manages to show up nearly every time I log in.
Comment by Jake Billo — April 15, 2008 @ 7:54 am
I had a day without updates, followed by a brief update overnight and no more updates since. The only new news I'm getting on that page is in the mini "status updates" bit with your friends' last 3 updates in it.
I notice that the little tick/cross icons next to news items have gone for a burton as well. It's hard to say if they've decided against them permanently or if they've just gone on holiday. The same goes for the FOAF suggestions feature which seemingly vanished on Sunday UK time.
Comment by Sahmeepee — April 15, 2008 @ 8:33 am
Yeah, I've noticed my newsfeed no longer has the "thumbs up / X" icons in the upper right – a sample screen capture demonstrates this. It's really a shame, since I use that red X to hide people's inane stuff that still manages to show up nearly every time I log in.
Comment by Jake Billo — April 15, 2008 @ 8:54 am
What I noticed this morning was the thumbs-up/X buttons were no longer there. When I reported it, Facebook support wrote back saying "Unfortunately, the functionality you are requesting is not currently available. We have removed these options to reduce clutter on the site." Even tho it's still listed in the help: http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=138Personally, I liked the voting, and found it useful, particularly in helping me quickly tell which news items were new. And I didn't find it cluttering at all. Ah well.
Comment by Will — April 15, 2008 @ 9:18 am
There is also no X V on every newsfeed item anymore… And they have been playing around with changing the "message" link under the profile picture, they changed it to "Message XXX" and several days ago changed it back to "Send XXX a message".
Comment by rutipo — April 15, 2008 @ 9:23 am
My newsfeed is working fine, and seems to have no downtime whatsoever.
Comment by Ryan Merket — April 15, 2008 @ 10:09 am
My News Feed is broken..the same for the news feed of my wife and some friends i checked…
Comment by Manos — April 15, 2008 @ 10:17 am
What I noticed this morning was the thumbs-up/X buttons were no longer there. When I reported it, Facebook support wrote back saying "Unfortunately, the functionality you are requesting is not currently available. We have removed these options to reduce clutter on the site." Even tho it's still listed in the help: http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=138
Personally, I liked the voting, and found it useful, particularly in helping me quickly tell which news items were new. And I didn't find it cluttering at all. Ah well.
Comment by Will — April 15, 2008 @ 10:18 am
There is also no X V on every newsfeed item anymore…
And they have been playing around with changing the "message" link under the profile picture, they changed it to "Message XXX" and several days ago changed it back to "Send XXX a message".
Comment by rutipo — April 15, 2008 @ 10:23 am
Also I dont see the "I Like this" and "I dont like this" buttos… are they removed or what ?
Comment by Manos — April 15, 2008 @ 11:24 am
Mine is still broken. Nothing new all day.
Comment by Johan — April 15, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
My newsfeed is working fine, and seems to have no downtime whatsoever.
Comment by Ryan Merket — April 15, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
My News Feed is broken..the same for the news feed of my wife and some friends i checked…
Comment by Manos — April 15, 2008 @ 2:17 pm
Mine is still broken. Nothing new all day.
Comment by Johan — April 15, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Mine just broke:( Starting Sat night, the only thing published on my newsfeed is stuff posted on my profile by others (i.e. wall posts, etc).
Comment by Maggie — April 28, 2008 @ 7:26 am
Mine just broke:( Starting Sat night, the only thing published on my newsfeed is stuff posted on my profile by others (i.e. wall posts, etc).
Comment by Maggie — April 28, 2008 @ 11:26 am
My newsfeed hasn't updated since two weeks ago. The only news i'm getting are about myself. Do you know how I could fix this? Thanks
Comment by Stephanie — May 25, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
hello i just noticedthis mistake … can you help me out here my profile picture in zynga poker has a red picture witha z in the middle why is this?
Comment by gary — July 17, 2009 @ 1:21 pm