Tbh, Microsoft shouldn't be developing the app anymore. Twitter can access the people hub too. Why aren't Microsoft giving the tools to Facebook instead. If they did thin the beginning, we wouldn't be missing out on features such as Facebook trends, news articles, apps linking to the Facebook app for game invites, searching for topics, smart search (search for people by city, address, place of work etc). At least we managed to get picture comments (in late 2014). With Windows 10, the APIs give all the developers the same tools Microsoft are allowed to use which means access to parts of the OS like the people hub, phone, calendar, Cortana interests, Xbox, accounts, emails etc. Just look at the ratings and reviews in the store. Microsoft shouldn't develop the app anymore. Facebook should.Way back in the mists of time, Facebook contacts were integrated into the People hub more closely than it is now. I guess that in order to help that happen, the Facebook app needed to use private API methods, which were better used by the Microsoft app development team.
I don't know this for sure, but it seems a reasonable theory to me.
So Microsoft got the rights to create Facebook app on Windows Phone. At the same time, Microsoft embedded Bing into Facebook (Facebook searches (and probably a few internals) are powered by Bing).
This collaboration also resulted in the Facebook 'f' logo and contact placeholder icons being baked into the People app (regardless of whether people use Facebook or not).
That probably explains why even the old s40 phones have more features in their Facebook app than ours.From what i gathered (chatting with Lumia phone support) FB is only published by MS and is not developed by them. It also had to be one of the most badly or poorly made apps (even though i cannot code). Months and months and months of silly updates that still dont fix fundamental things is ridiculous, not to mention the ignorance of emails, and MS's slow action in doing what they need to.
That probably explains why even the old s40 phones have more features in their Facebook app then ours.
I'm still not sure why they don't port the Android and iOS Facebook apps to WP. I thought that was one of the big things you can do the new developer tools or whatever it was MS talked about recently. I guess again we're waiting for Windows 10 to save us.
I'm not sure why you guys call the apps were bad or something. I think they run pretty good. Facebook gave me notification in real time (which sometime annoy me) same goes with twitter.
Yes they both lack of feature but reliable and run well.
Don't know about yours but I'm happy with mine