The Facebook App sucks.

[Averry]

It's extremely nice, if you're into waiting 15 seconds before you start touching it.


It looks beautiful, but I hope Microsoft makes some steps to improve its speed. Whether I'm on wifi or 3G, it always hangs there for a few seconds, and if you try to swipe across to early it sort of just wigs out.

It's sort of embarrassing to talk up how fast the phone is, but then pop open Facebook and watch it stutter something fierce.

The Android app is not nearly as fun, but it's simply much much faster. It was developed by Facebook, maybe it's just more lightweight...but if Microsoft is gonna do the Facebook app themselves, they need to speed it up.

The Facebook integration is nice, but if you want to check out what's happening during your various activities , you will need to open the app.

Or if you just want to creep on people.

Which is very bad.

Very bad.

Don't do it.

No, you can do it if you want.

 

[Luisraul924]

Its probably due to the fact that it has to load aaaall the data EVERY time you open it, I'm sure once multitasking comes around (and by the time that gets here hopefully the app will have received some performance updates as well) when not having to update data all the time it should be a lot better...

 

[cdook]

It seems like the app needs to cache data or something. It's probably pulling more down than it needs to...

 

[1jaxstate1]

I think the FB app is better on WP7. I don't find it "that" slow. The android FB app is clunky and and all over the place. I don't mind waiting 5 more seconds.

 

[Vankade]

I'd have to agree with the OP, the performance of the FB app needs to be worked on.

 

[jalb]

I just use the people app. Plus touch.facebook.com is a pretty decent mobile site. To be honest, I have always been amazed at how ****ty the Facebook mobile action is. All of it, regardless of platform, seems to be pretty buggy and subpar.

 

[Dave Blake]

I have mine set to automatically refresh every 3 minutes and I never exit out it still takes a couple of seconds to become responsive but all the data is usually there

 

[Tobyus]

I just use the people app. Plus touch.facebook.com is a pretty decent mobile site. To be honest, I have always been amazed at how ****ty the Facebook mobile action is. All of it, regardless of platform, seems to be pretty buggy and subpar.

I agree, on my BB it was a memory hog and always had some kind of major bug with every update. On WP7, the facebook app is so slow and it crashes when I click on the Notifications icon in the top right corner. The touch site is blazing fast and seems to offer enough features for me, and the People hub is good enough for a quick glance at what is going on and posting comments/status updates.

 

[cdook]

I have mine set to automatically refresh every 3 minutes and I never exit out it still takes a couple of seconds to become responsive but all the data is usually there

How is the battery life on your phone when you're doing that?

 

[Luisraul924]

I just use the people app. Plus touch.facebook.com is a pretty decent mobile site. To be honest, I have always been amazed at how ****ty the Facebook mobile action is. All of it, regardless of platform, seems to be pretty buggy and subpar.

wait hold on a minute... touch.facebook.com works for you? It has never worked for me I thought there was some browser incompatibility issues... m.facebook.com however; works perfectly fine...

 

[jalb]

wait hold on a minute... touch.facebook.com works for you? It has never worked for me I thought there was some browser incompatibility issues... m.facebook.com however; works perfectly fine...

my apologies, you are correct. It is m.facebook.com that I have been using.

 

[Luisraul924]

Awesome... I was about to start feeling left out lol

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[jalb]

That's really weird that it doesn't work... all of the links do nothing, except the log out link. Brings me back to my earlier statement about how strange it is that all Facebook mobile apps seem to suck, lol.

 

[Luisraul924]

Is it HTML5? If so, then we know why...

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[Rich Edmonds]

People need to remember that Facebook itself isn't the most stable and reliable being on Earth. I hate the site with a passion and always hear complaints on every platform (including desktop OS) that it's either slow or not working. It's already had problems on WP7 so far with the https issue etc. and while I agree that the speed of the app could be worked on, I'd rather Microsoft sort out the Youtube app first (battle with Google on rights of access), lol.

 

[1jaxstate1]

Facebook for iPhone was pretty flawless. Wp7 app is a close second. Its messy for Android. Its a shame that MS own app isn't getting updated properly. I'll take twitter integration next, over YouTube. Supertube is pretty awesome.

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[Averry]

People need to remember that Facebook itself isn't the most stable and reliable being on Earth. I hate the site with a passion and always hear complaints on every platform (including desktop OS) that it's either slow or not working. It's already had problems on WP7 so far with the https issue etc. and while I agree that the speed of the app could be worked on, I'd rather Microsoft sort out the Youtube app first (battle with Google on rights of access), lol.

The WP7 app just moves, really, really slow.

You log into the Android app, and it looks alright, but is very quick. It's easy to drag up your notifications.

Just logging into Facebook and going to your news feed is super slow on WP7.

And again, when I first got Android, I actually used touch.facebook until Facebook updated their app to iOS parity.

But touch.facebook doesn't seem to work on the WP7 IE browser.

 

[eric12341]

I have no problems with it since the latest update. but the full Facebook site works flawlessly even the chat works

 

[Averry]

There's no problems....it's just really really slow.

 

[gibbyhome]

I don't ever use the facebook app on WP7, I always use the people hub and if I want to look at pictures, the picture hub I removed the app, I asked my wife the other day the same question if she liked the facebook app I installed for her, she told me she never uses it, she just uses the people hub, but she did say she wishes it refreshes in the background instead of everytime she goes in it loads..
no big deal..