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Facebook Production Bugs

I often complain about Facebook's engineering quality (e.g., on Quora). To provide some idea of what I mean, these are some of the bugs I've encountered on…
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(December 2011) Notifications menu renders too narrowly and in the wrong place. About Facebook, Error Message, Bugs, Bar Chart, Wrong, December, Engineering, Menu, Social Media
About Facebook
Error Message
Bugs
Bar Chart
Wrong
December
Engineering
Menu
Social Media
(December 2011) Notifications menu renders too narrowly and in the wrong place.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(December 2011) Duplicate notifications. Now Watch, You Videos, Geek Stuff, Trading, Geek Things, Beetles
Now Watch
You Videos
Geek Stuff
Trading
Geek Things
Beetles
(December 2011) Duplicate notifications.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(November 2011) Messages doesn't work for a couple of minutes. Take A Screenshot, New Top, Book Worth Reading, November, Minutes, Couple, Messages
Take A Screenshot
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(November 2011) Messages doesn't work for a couple of minutes.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) This isn't technically a bug, but I thought it was an awful UX. #### I got this rooster, but the actual settings panel where you enable subscribers doesn't have a similar note. Is the plan to just keep roostering people forever? If this is important, then when I go to edit Subscriber settings, it should have a little note like this. This rooster only loads about half the time for me, and takes a very long time to load (a half second or so after all other content on the page has loaded). I clicked "update search settings" and it silently set my search privacy to "Everyone" without a confirmation dialog and without showing me where the setting is or helping me understand my options. My search privacy was already at "Friends of Friends". After I restored my search privacy setting, this rooster reappeared. As a user, I don't want roosters like this and I don't want any buttons anywhere on the site ever which change my privacy without showing me the old setting, the new setting, confirming that the change is something I want, and making it clear how I go change it back. Roosters, Change Me, Dialogue, Looking Up, Help Me, Confirmation, I Got This, Subscribe
Roosters
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Looking Up
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(October 2011) This isn't technically a bug, but I thought it was an awful UX. #### I got this rooster, but the actual settings panel where you enable subscribers doesn't have a similar note. Is the plan to just keep roostering people forever? If this is important, then when I go to edit Subscriber settings, it should have a little note like this. This rooster only loads about half the time for me, and takes a very long time to load (a half second or so after all other content on the page has loaded). I clicked "update search settings" and it silently set my search privacy to "Everyone" without a confirmation dialog and without showing me where the setting is or helping me understand my options. My search privacy was already at "Friends of Friends". After I restored my search privacy setting, this rooster reappeared. As a user, I don't want roosters like this and I don't want any buttons anywhere on the site ever which change my privacy without showing me the old setting, the new setting, confirming that the change is something I want, and making it clear how I go change it back.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Friends, notifications and messages fail to render on the mobile site. Fails, October, Mobile, Friends, Photo
Fails
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(October 2011) Friends, notifications and messages fail to render on the mobile site.
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Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Entire mobile site was completely broken for about 36 hours. This issue persisted across multiple reloads. Entire, Multiple
Entire
Multiple
(October 2011) Entire mobile site was completely broken for about 36 hours. This issue persisted across multiple reloads.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
Facebook Fail, Post, Make Mistakes, Insects
Facebook Fail
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Make Mistakes
Insects
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Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Guess what this interface does? Updates your status? Nope! It posts to a group. Nope, Posts, Group
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Group
(October 2011) Guess what this interface does? Updates your status? Nope! It posts to a group.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Zero or more! Zero
Zero
(October 2011) Zero or more!
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Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Improper escaping of middot. Improper, Tech Company Logos, ? Logo
Improper
Tech Company Logos
? Logo
(October 2011) Improper escaping of middot.
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Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Groups feature completely broken because of Javascript errors. Javascript, Word Search Puzzle, Bullet Journal, Feature
Javascript
Word Search Puzzle
Bullet Journal
Feature
(October 2011) Groups feature completely broken because of Javascript errors.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Another really bad scrape from the new share scraper. Author, Coding, Writers, Programming
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Coding
Writers
Programming
(October 2011) Another really bad scrape from the new share scraper.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Text displays "2" but there is only one image. One Image, Text
One Image
Text
(October 2011) Text displays "2" but there is only one image.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) Approve all what? Personal Care, Self Care, Personal Hygiene
Personal Care
Self Care
Personal Hygiene
(October 2011) Approve all what?
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs
(October 2011) I had a "1" here for about two months. No activity showed up when I clicked through. It eventually started working correctly. Thing 1, Show Up, Months, Activities, Info
Thing 1
Show Up
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Activities
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(October 2011) I had a "1" here for about two months. No activity showed up when I clicked through. It eventually started working correctly.
Evan Priestley
Evan Priestley
Facebook Production Bugs