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Not really. Have you tried it? It doesn't really work. I can't even figure out how to use it from my mobile device without installing an app.

JD557 5y ago
That's weird... I have tried it (I use it a lot on PC) and it works just fine. It even has some extra features, like LaTeX support. I guess you mean it doesn't work on mobile browsers? (Never tried that)
- MaxBarraclough 5y ago
  PC is different. They deliberately removed messaging from the mobile web interface, see my reply to konspence.
  - fwn 5y ago
    Messaging was still available for a long time through mbasic.facebook.com up until very recently. They removed that feature at the time their last big messenger outage happened. messenger.com still works on Android Firefox as long as you switch to desktop mode. Not sure for how long though, as it looks as if they are constantly sabotaging their platform. ..and it shows: Facebook Messenger feels far less relevant than maybe ten years ago. In my German peer group everyone now uses either WhatsApp or Signal for private and Teams+email for work related communication.
    - taneq 5y ago
      Still works for me, unless they’ve taken it down in the last couple of hours..:
MaxBarraclough 5y ago
> I can't even figure out how to use it from my mobile device without installing an app. I believe that's deliberate. The mobile web version of Facebook used to support personal messaging. In 2016 they removed it in an effort to push people onto the app. https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/03/facebook-is-disabling-messaging-in-its-mobile-web-app-to-push-people-to-messenger/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/03/facebook-is-disabling-mess...
zwegner 5y ago
You can still use messaging on the basic mobile site, https://mbasic.facebook.com https://mbasic.facebook.com, which doesn't even need Javascript.
- Natfan 5y ago
  Unfortunately, that's not my experience. Going to https://mbasic.facebook.com/messages https://mbasic.facebook.com/messages gets me the following: > Your Page's Inbox is not currently available in the > Facebook app or mobile web browsers. You can access > your messages through a desktop browser, or by > downloading Facebook Business Suite or Messenger > from the app store. In one comment on HN[0], a user suggested: > You may need to access the page by clicking a link > from another mbasic page in order to have some kind > of checksum in the URL. Another user replied that they were able to get access to the page with that method[1], but I haven't been able to replicate it. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402316 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402354

JD557 5y ago

That's weird... I have tried it (I use it a lot on PC) and it works just fine. It even has some extra features, like LaTeX support. I guess you mean it doesn't work on mobile browsers? (Never tried that)

MaxBarraclough 5y ago
PC is different. They deliberately removed messaging from the mobile web interface, see my reply to konspence.
- fwn 5y ago
  Messaging was still available for a long time through mbasic.facebook.com up until very recently. They removed that feature at the time their last big messenger outage happened. messenger.com still works on Android Firefox as long as you switch to desktop mode. Not sure for how long though, as it looks as if they are constantly sabotaging their platform. ..and it shows: Facebook Messenger feels far less relevant than maybe ten years ago. In my German peer group everyone now uses either WhatsApp or Signal for private and Teams+email for work related communication.
  - taneq 5y ago
    Still works for me, unless they’ve taken it down in the last couple of hours..:

MaxBarraclough 5y ago

> I can't even figure out how to use it from my mobile device without installing an app. I believe that's deliberate. The mobile web version of Facebook used to support personal messaging. In 2016 they removed it in an effort to push people onto the app. https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/03/facebook-is-disabling-messaging-in-its-mobile-web-app-to-push-people-to-messenger/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/03/facebook-is-disabling-mess...

zwegner 5y ago

You can still use messaging on the basic mobile site, https://mbasic.facebook.com https://mbasic.facebook.com, which doesn't even need Javascript.

Natfan 5y ago
Unfortunately, that's not my experience. Going to https://mbasic.facebook.com/messages https://mbasic.facebook.com/messages gets me the following: > Your Page's Inbox is not currently available in the > Facebook app or mobile web browsers. You can access > your messages through a desktop browser, or by > downloading Facebook Business Suite or Messenger > from the app store. In one comment on HN[0], a user suggested: > You may need to access the page by clicking a link > from another mbasic page in order to have some kind > of checksum in the URL. Another user replied that they were able to get access to the page with that method[1], but I haven't been able to replicate it. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402316 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402354