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Re: Is “Is” A Throwback?

theharmonyguy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:10:45 -0000

btw, Facebook has confirmed on their bug tracker that the change to the status feature is not live, despite the dev news feed. Updates should come soon.

Re: Is “Is” A Throwback?

Dean — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:28:26 -0000

What I have noticed is that if you go on the Facebook iPhone optimized website (iphone.facebook.com) and go to update your status, it said [your name] and then a text box... no is... but when you type something in the text box, it adds an is after you submit.

Could this be a sign of things to come?

Re: Is “Is” A Throwback?

Jordan — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:18:27 -0000

I'm sorry, but that is noobish. The Internet is not your army. One guy does not decide a meme. LOLcats got it's start in a few deeply rooted communities and was capitalized on by a few people. I'm sorry for being an ass, but to assume one can create a meme themselves, and expect acceptance of it is just asinine.

In other news though, I check 4 times a day to see if I can remove the 'is' that I might impress friends with my prowess. Sadly I can't see this 'impress my friends' thing happening :(

Re: Is “Is” A Throwback?

Simon Owens — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:52:57 -0000

I've definitely been annoyed with how the word "is" limits what I can write in my status. I think it was a good initial method of stressing to members what the status feature is for, but now that we have the hang of it I think they should get rid of it.

Re: Is “Is” A Throwback?

theharmonyguy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:59:20 -0000

I've been doing tests with an application, and I can't get rid of "is" even when I set the new parameter they mentioned. I'm wondering if they've temporarily rolled back the API changes from the other night.

Re: Is “Is” A Throwback?

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:47:05 -0000

Hi Stephane,

I have noticed similar issues. You gotta post an "is" statement when writing a comment for this post though! It's not as easy as you would think!

Nick is finds it hard to come up with "is" statements.

Re: Is “Is” A Throwback?

Stephane Daury — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:38:14 -0000

Actually, they must be working on something still, because the status field has been broken in my profile view since yesterday (Firefox, at least). If I edit my status on the Profile screen, the text is non-editable, and hitting backspace will reload the whole page, with my status untouched. Setting my status from the News Feed screen works fine though. Also, I've noticed a bug in the last few weeks in the Mini Feed where my status was consistently stating "Stephane *is is* doing something", when the other places where the status is displayed did not (so it wasn't me doubling up),