Snag bar fix for people who do not see game posts on Facebook news stream

by Amy Wong - Nov 08, 2010 100,017 views

Many people are reporting that they no longer see Farmville and/or Frontierville game feeds on their Facebook news stream after Facebook changed the way they display the news stream for gamers vs non gamers. Basically, the change was to show game feeds only to gamers and less or none to non gamers. Unfortunatly, Facebook can't really tell if some are gamers or not (d'oh) and are showing less or none feeds to those people. Many gamers are saying they need to go to their "Games Stories" on the sidebar to see any game feeds.

We filed a bug with Facebook but seems like it's going to take a long time until they do something about it. So we found a work around to get the game feeds using a different method. But this isn't automatically switched, you will need to tick the option to use this method explicitly to update the toolbar. You should see this option on your toolbar preference page:

Like written in red here, do NOT tick this if the feed is already showing up on your news stream. One way to tell if your feed isn't showing up is if you see the message below when you click on the Farmville feed and/or Frontierville feed pages:

If you see this message, you should definitely tick the option on the toolbar preference. If you don't see that message and the toolbar is not working, it's a different issue so this option will NOT work.

Let us know if you have any questions but please don't just post messages like "the snag bar is not working" - instead tell us more explicitly what the problem is after trying out this method.