Hey FB, why are you forcing messenger?
Genuinely curious. I can't see my messages on the mobile website now unless I download the app. Is it to better scale the website? I uninstalled FB app a long time ago because it was just draining my battery and didn't care about messenger, and I don't see how forcing people to download your app will be a good thing for retention. Anyone knows the reason?
They’ve been doing this in a gradually more aggressive fashion for years... the “can’t view on mobile web” thing was a while ago. Now that fewer friends are using Messenger I’m very close to uninstalling it in addition to the core FB app I’ve already uninstalled.
And this is exactly why fewer use it. It's why I stopped. I wasn't a heavy user to begin with so forcing the app on me was the tipping point, I just stopped using it completely.
Pushing messenger that hard convinced me to uninstall Facebook. I didn't want to accidentally click on messenger again.
fantastic NSA source.
Use messenger.com to not have an app
There is a FB lite and messenger lite version of the app as well.
Yeah... No.
Why not? Genuinely curious. Much more stripped down versions that won’t have the battery concerns you had before.
Use mobile browser and "request desktop site"
Gezz relax, they probably need to roll back web version and invest resources in the app instead. What would you do if bing traffic comes 99% from phone app and mobile web is taking 30% of resources? (Hypothetical numbers)
Nice try
You should try fblite. I switched to it because of the battery drain and it's been great.
Try this: Signal - Private Messenger by Open Whisper Systems https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/id874139669?mt=8
To make money
They want to mine the data in messenger.