You can bypass the paywall by entering your email. Even in the full article they only mention a confidential source, which makes sense because even if it was real, it's very easy to cause a crash without leaving a trace in the app. For instance, the server might purposefully send a malformed response that causes the client to crash.
No the one you asked either, but I usually email me@onenote.com [1] from my Gmail account with the URL in the subject, and it saves the page as content AND as a long picture.
It would probably not work here since it would require to be logged in or something, in that case I guess OneNote Clipper [2] would do the trick.
> I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly.
In Firefox's developer toolbar (Tools -> Web Developer -> Developer Toolbar), you can type 'screenshot --fullpage' and it will save an image of the entire page for you.
This is original reporting by The Information. They are the source of it, but they're behind a paywall so we get links to blog posts about it. If you want the source, you have to deal with a paywall.
The lede in the source seems to focus on contingency plans for Android Apps around the Google Play Store. I suspect something is being misunderstood by the linked author.
EDIT: User gruez posted an image of the article here https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg. There is one line from a single unattributed source describing a "one-time experiment several years ago"
Sounds like the beginning of an urban legend. The truth of the matter is that Facebook engineering is getting bloated just like all other big companies and their apps crash not because they're testing user loyalty but because their code is just shitty.
Their app has been crashing constantly since day 1. On high speed wifi, my newsfeed regularly takes upwards of 10 seconds to load, and the iOS app crashes like a drunk. They do some truly hard things, and coupled with their "move fast and break things" ethos... well they end up with some stability issues. I'm not sure its an issue of bloat though.
Funny enough: the FB app never crashed on me, but Twitter does reproducibly crash after about 20 actions (Android).
Whatsapp however regularly loses its connection on Wifi (even when on battery, and wifi powersaving is disabled), and after 6 hours I see "oh, 20 new messages"...
Problem of scale is that neither of the three (or, actually two) companies has a public bug tracker where one could report bugs and see if anything happened with it. You basically feel like you're interacting with a fucking black box.
I'm not a Facebook user myself, but I've heard that the Facebook website can now send notifications through the browser, effectively eliminating the need of a bloated, buggy app.
Okay, it's fine. But face the fact that a lot of people use applications and there is a reason for it. It's not fluff. The situation on mobile browsers and their capabilities in comparison to native applications is quite straight forward. Web browsers can't compete. Yes it is getting better. But it's hardly a replacement. We're not there yet. Not even close.
Doesn't anyone else think it is odd that all these stories have started to appear in the last few day? It is almost like Google is planning something known within Facebook and Facebook is trying to send Google a message that they have a back up plan. Anytime I read articles with sources who are "off the record" it makes me wonder.
Who gives a shit. They're free to degrade its performance all they like in order to test it. Its not as if Facebook has some kind of SLA, its a free service that nobody is obligated to use.
Tell that to clients. They're convinced that because they're in an app store that they're instamillionaires. My favorite one is house hunting on an app, a la Zillow.
The user numbers that a store reports are so pointless. It's a popularity contest. I wish that someone (anyone) would pull out some open analytics to show usage numbers instead.
I had a carrier locked phone that one day demanded that I log into Facebook. It would repeatedly launch and I ended up having to flash the phone. Drove me nuts.
In my non-technical circle of friends most of us have recently given up and uninstalled the Facebook app because of resource usage and undesired notifications rather than crashes. I don't care if the app crashes every now and then when I use it. I hate when it sends me notifications of people I've met once and runs constantly in the background to do so.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 100 ms ] threadRight now, there is zero evidence that any of this is real.
full article mirror: https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg
The tool that I use is Phantomjs with a script called 'rasterize.js`. The big plus for me was the ability to render arbitrary dpi images of web pages.
It would probably not work here since it would require to be logged in or something, in that case I guess OneNote Clipper [2] would do the trick.
[1]https://www.onenote.com/EmailToOneNote
[2]http://www.brucebnews.com/2015/03/onenote-clipper-is-the-bes...
> I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly.
[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
No. I tried before commenting: you need to enter a credit card too.
And the trick of looking up the article title on Google didn't work either.
I didn't find any mention in the article of this "voluntary crash" claim, did I miss it?
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3970
This is original reporting by The Information. They are the source of it, but they're behind a paywall so we get links to blog posts about it. If you want the source, you have to deal with a paywall.
EDIT: User gruez posted an image of the article here https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg. There is one line from a single unattributed source describing a "one-time experiment several years ago"
edit: grammar
Whatsapp however regularly loses its connection on Wifi (even when on battery, and wifi powersaving is disabled), and after 6 hours I see "oh, 20 new messages"...
Problem of scale is that neither of the three (or, actually two) companies has a public bug tracker where one could report bugs and see if anything happened with it. You basically feel like you're interacting with a fucking black box.
You know what rarely crashes for me? m.facebook.com on a web browser.
Facebook will never get installed on any device I own. Ever.
A relevant article from a Mozilla developer, James Long: http://jlongster.com/Radical-Statements-about-the-Mobile-Web...
I know that exist Tinfoil if you concerned about privacy:
https://fossdroid.com/a/tinfoil-for-facebook.html
They are relevant, like an 800 pound gorilla.
I'd rather use the mobile browser version of just about anyone's crappy app. There might be a handful of exceptions.
The user numbers that a store reports are so pointless. It's a popularity contest. I wish that someone (anyone) would pull out some open analytics to show usage numbers instead.
At least it'd make my life easier.
Shouldn't that be Facebook is the biggest developer of Facebook apps on Android?
Was this article written at Facebook HQ?
Weird people...