Issues with Facebook
I've experienced anomalies with facebook's service that would be pretty distressing to many in a self-isolation context. I have no gauge on how common or widespread these issues are, but I imagine my SO and I can't be alone in experiencing them—who else has these issues?
- Content disappearing. When looking back through my updates from 2017 and earlier, I notice the content and comments have been removed, but the Likes remain. Not swathes of them, but seemingly at random. I've also never seen them resurface as "memories", as is meant to happen when a post reaches an anniversary.
- No notifications. I know we are all aware of how facebook picks and chooses what we see from pages and groups. But something seems very off when you see nothing for friends for whom you've enabled notifications, even those in your Close Friends list, and they have posted several times throughout the day.
- Friends disappearing without warning. Friends who would never want to lose that connection, that don't deactivate their accounts, and yet vanish from your friends with no record of the action. As if it thinks that if you don't notice, you must not care.
- Slow messages. Really, really slow. One would hope even if everything else was terrible that you could still rely on the messenger. Yet messages are delayed for hours, regularly. Even adjusting for timezone, screenshots of the same conversation will show them being sent and received hours apart—17 hours in one case. You can only wonder how!? Where else did the message go?
These problems have made Facebook so unreliable that it seems almost useless at its core now compared to other platforms... and to be honest it feels like we're being experimented on. But I also wonder if it has caused grief or misunderstanding during lockdown, where old friends have been making time to reconnect.
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
Poll: Are you still heading to your local for your caffeine fix, or has the $$ changed your habits? ☕
Wellington’s identity is built on its cafe culture, but with costs climbing, that culture is under pressure. We’ve seen the headlines about recent closures, and it’s a tough pill to swallow along with a $6+ coffee.
We all want our favourite spots to stay open, but we also have to balance our own budgets ⚖️
We want to know: How are you handling the "coffee math" in 2026? Are you still heading to your local for a chat and a caffeine fix, or has the cost of living changed your habits?
Keen to read more about "coffee math"? The Post has you covered.
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56.5% I avoid spending money on coffee
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34.8% I still indulge at my local cafe
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8.7% Irrelevant - coffee is not for me
🧩😏 Riddle me this, Neighbours…
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Do you think you know the answer?
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