# What the Hell Just happened to Facebook?

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by HauntedReverie (doing the bad mango) on Tuesday, 30-Aug-2011 13:02:49

I don't know if anyone else has this going on, but my FB has been messed up since Monday. This goes for both desktop and laptop running XP and 7 respectively, and also affects the mobile site as well. My iPhone still works though! I'm using IE8, and have tried firefox too, to no avail.
It's like there are about fifty thousand more graphics now accompanying each link. You know how jaws reads for Chinese characters or graphical symbols, with lots of question marks in its voice? That's what it's doing with FB. I can't even use the site, because 90 percent of the links don't have names, just this weird graphic (I'm assuming.) Like I said, this started on Monday. Does anyone know what they did, or what could be going on here?
Cala

## Post 2 by starfly (99956) on Tuesday, 30-Aug-2011 15:28:46

Lovely!! now I wonder if they have broke the android face book more then they have!. Hmm... now to go and look later on.

## Post 3 by snowflower (Zone BBS Addict) on Tuesday, 30-Aug-2011 20:13:45

I am not having that problem. It seems to work fine.

## Post 4 by maddog (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Wednesday, 31-Aug-2011 0:29:16

the version of your screen reader might have something to do with it too. JFW 12 doesn't seem to be experiencing any issues.

## Post 5 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 31-Aug-2011 5:37:20

i'm not having the problem either. :).

## Post 6 by jessmonsilva (Taking over the boards, one topic at a time.) on Wednesday, 31-Aug-2011 9:28:50

neither am I. Fb seems to be working fine for me.

## Post 7 by Leafs Fan (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Wednesday, 31-Aug-2011 13:25:19

It is working great on my iPhone. A friend also did tell me it has become strange on her computer, so maybe it is affecting some users? Who knows with Facebook!

## Post 8 by HauntedReverie (doing the bad mango) on Wednesday, 31-Aug-2011 18:59:12

I'm going to be supremely pissed if it's only affecting jaws 11 and lower.. all you guys who arn't having difficulties, do you have jaws 12?

## Post 9 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 31-Aug-2011 19:06:09

I'm using Jaws 11 and it is working fine for me, at least the mobile site is, don't ever touch the main site so can't speak to that.
Dan.

## Post 10 by basket (knowledge is power) on Wednesday, 31-Aug-2011 20:17:16

it is working perfectly for me and I am using jaws 12.
However, I have noticed they seem to have removed the ability to post links. Not sure if its just my end though since I've seen others posting links jsut fine but that feature seems to have disappeared for me.

## Post 11 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 01-Sep-2011 0:46:36

I'm using NVDA and the mobile site. I haven't had any problems. But things have shifted a bit, particularly with notifications. It used to be that the new ones were always ontop. Now older ones normally come before the latest ones,. Yesterday, it also started reading them differently. It would just say that someone has commented on a link or post, sometimes showing me two or three links to whomever commented and then a link to the post itself. Now, it says "photo" before everything in notifications and if someone likes a status or if more than one person comments, it's all in one link. One good thing that they've done is to stop posting photos every single time someone adds new friends. It used to be that if someone would add five new friends, I'd see "graphic photo" five times. It would go up to ten friends. But I've also seen where, for example, if someone adds ten friends, each will show up in a different post, so it's almost as bad. Maybe, they fixed that by now. Another thing that I don't get at all are these stupid headlines. You used to just be able to choose most recent and that was it. But now, they have headlines before the recent stories. I wish they'd just leave it alone!

## Post 12 by renegade rocker (I just keep on posting!) on Thursday, 01-Sep-2011 0:55:23

I'm using jaws ten, and it works perfectly here.

## Post 13 by rusty81 (Zone BBS is my Life) on Thursday, 01-Sep-2011 1:58:37

no problem here. using jaws11 for my comp andIOS4.3 in my iPhone4...

## Post 14 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 01-Sep-2011 17:49:07

OK could be two things:
First, the kids at Facebook may be rolling out a new version, which they typically do in stages, meaning different users start getting the new page at different times.
However, you said thee thing about the question marks with the reader. Does it ever say 'chinese', or some other language?
Go onto the mobile site and go down to the bottom I believe, there is a line that should say English U.S. or whatever language you have selected, and a link that says 'Change'. If it's anything other than English, you should of course click 'Change' and change that.
I'm not sure that would be it.
Of course, your iPhone application is a third-party application, even though it does come from Facebook, so the information is served to you in a different way. Roll-outs of the apps isn't necessarily paired with roll-outs of the site.

## Post 15 by HauntedReverie (doing the bad mango) on Saturday, 03-Sep-2011 12:17:53

Mystery solved!
Thanks to Leaffan for the idea. :P
Apparently my FB was in Russian... why was it in Russian? I had a sighted friend change it back to English for me. I have no idea why it was in Russian.

## Post 16 by SatansProphet (Forever in the service of Satan, my King...) on Thursday, 08-Sep-2011 2:13:54

Lol! Well, I'm glad you fixed it. I've decided to jettison my Fb; I'm just not using it enough to warrant keeping it.