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Friendly for iPad issues?

bbhegedus

bbhegedus

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I love Friendly for iPad and even bought the full version, but as of yesterday....it starting have lots of issues and I hear a lot of other people are having the same issues. It just signs you in to the mobile site or gives you a black screen. Reboot hasn't fixed mine. Anyone else having problems with this or other facebook for ipad apps?
 
bbhegedus said:
I love Friendly for iPad and even bought the full version, but as of yesterday....it starting have lots of issues and I hear a lot of other people are having the same issues. It just signs you in to the mobile site or gives you a black screen. Reboot hasn't fixed mine. Anyone else having problems with this or other facebook for ipad apps?
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Yep, lots of problems. Black screen, not working as an app - it just loads touch.facebook.com. Restarting the iPad didn't fix, nor did re-installing the app.
 
Omg same thing for me. Only started happening after I updated to the newest software two days ago!
 
They updated saying this "UPDATE: We have submitted Friendly 3.5.1, that will fix this "black screen"/netpad issue to Apple. It's going through Apple's approval process."

and just 30 min ago, "UPDATE: Apple agreed to review Friendly 3.5.1 in priority. I'm hoping they will be done in the next few hours. I'll post an update as soon as the fix is available in the App Store."
 
Count me in as well. Notifications are extremely old as well... I have the paid version (not that that makes any difference)
 
When it's working properly, is the main difference between the paid and free versions the lack of ads? I actually find them unobtrusive so they don't bother me but wonder if there are other benefits I'm missing.
 
I was using the free version when I first got my iPad 2 a few days ago, it was fine. But it didn't show new updates even when I refresh. Now it shows a black screen as you said, or the regular facebook.com :confused:
 
I was never a big fan of Friendly, but I can tell you from my experience in the social space that Facebook is notorious for changing crucial parts of the APIs that everyone uses to pull and display information from the app. They make these changes regularly and without warning. Each time it sends hundreds (thousands?) of tech companies into a war against time to adjust their code accordingly before users that don't know any better simply become frustrated and stop using whatever it is that they are experiencing the problems on (and in this case, go on a 1-star rating bonanza).

I understand that Facebook reserves the right to manage their code as they see fit and that notification to developers is probably an impossible proposition since they make changes so regularly. It is just sort of a fact of life for 3rd party devs at this point. Users just need to be educated that you can't always blame the guys who made your app, rather the source of the data they are simply displaying.
 
Patriot24 said:
I was never a big fan of Friendly, but I can tell you from my experience in the social space that Facebook is notorious for changing crucial parts of the APIs that everyone uses to pull and display information from the app. They make these changes regularly and without warning. Each time it sends hundreds (thousands?) of tech companies into a war against time to adjust their code accordingly before users that don't know any better simply become frustrated and stop using whatever it is that they are experiencing the problems on (and in this case, go on a 1-star rating bonanza).

I understand that Facebook reserves the right to manage their code as they see fit and that notification to developers is probably an impossible proposition since they make changes so regularly. It is just sort of a fact of life for 3rd party devs at this point. Users just need to be educated that you can't always blame the guys who made your app, rather the source of the data they are simply displaying.
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No matter how many people know, there will always be a lot of people who complain and rage. Just look at the paid friendly for ipad, it has 1.5 stars.
 
If the people behind Facebook created an iPad specific version of their app then there would not be such problems. I have the iPhone Facebook app installed on my iPad but rarely use it as it's not optimised for the larger screen. One could argue you can just go to their web site on the net but it's obviously not as practical as having a dedicated app.
 
Mr.C said:
If the people behind Facebook created an iPad specific version of their app then there would not be such problems. I have the iPhone Facebook app installed on my iPad but rarely use it as it's not optimised for the larger screen. One could argue you can just go to their web site on the net but it's obviously not as practical as having a dedicated app.
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I only use apps for chat... everything else I use safari.
 
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