Some players are reporting that they can no longer see Mafia Wars posts in their news feeds
(1). I also have this problem and assumed I needed to adjust my settings or unhide Mafia Wars. When I took all the measures that I normally would to resolve this issue, I still couldn't see any Mafia Wars posts in my news feeds.
I usually use the link below when I want to see all the Mafia Wars spam in my news feeds but that doesn't even work.
I don't know what could be causing this problem but I know it's not just me. I can see all Mafia Wars posts on the walls of my friends, they just don't appear in the news feeds.
A few weeks ago, Zynga spent a lot of time creating instructions to tell players how to ensure their Mafia Wars posts can be seen by others
(1). I don't think they have a game plan when it works the other way around. This is most likely something on the Facebook side and Zynga should be pissed. What is the point of generating excessive amounts of spam if not everybody can see it? It kind of defeats the purpose. If the people who want to see these posts are having a hard time, imagine how happy the people are who don't.
At this time I don't have a workaround. I checked the forums and this issue isn't listed in the Known Issues thread. Players who can't see your posts can't help you. Not all accounts are experiencing this issue but if you are you will find that your scanning scripts don't work because there is nothing to scan.
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I'm seeing the posts in both my accounts. However, I don't seem to see as many as usual. To see more, I have my friends listed in different categories...one being "games/MW" and it works best. I also have one for seeing family and/or sending to family. One acct is in FF7, the other is in Chrome.
ReplyDeleteMafia Wars feed posts are back on Facebook for me :)
ReplyDeleteThis has to be some type of facebook issues.
ReplyDeleteI've already been told looking at another person FB profile that they have 4 hours of posts.
I've been unable to look back on my wall at older posts. It tells me I have no more even though I know I was playing games before that date.
Had a mafia member tell me she can see my posts. I still can't see any though, including one posted by my mini that she can see.
ReplyDeletedear lootlady team. this problem i have also and i must say i fix it in the account seetings of facebook and also the private settings of facebook. since i check my ignore and block list i see all mafia posts again. check your settings then since fb have change there wall again you all should make changes again on your fb account. it will cost you some time but it will help you to see all post again.try also left side on news feed on the fb homepage. hope this coment help you all a bit, greethings and thanks for the good work lootlady.
ReplyDelete@dejan, thanks for the suggestions but I did all these things before making the post and there are still no feeds. That could be the cause for some players but there is something else going on. If MW was blocked, you wouldn't be able to see posts on other players walls.
ReplyDeleteits not blocked. it was here since the fb change 4 days that wallscrubber and myself dont have seen any posts. i see on friends walls like you say before but not on the homepage. after changeinging settings all is fine. i see all post like before and scrubber also work fine as before. never would block my game what i play daily 15 houers since more than 2 years now. but i must say i am bit pissed about the closing of linkonator and the zynga thinking about scripts. but i will play as long as possible.
ReplyDeletecant see any MW post...
ReplyDeleteThe bad part about not being able to see newsfeed posts is those that the rely on them to help with the Family Progression each day will be affected by this, so thanks for letting those of us know there is a problem. I am not experiencing this problem, but if I do, at least I'll have some ideas on what I can do.
ReplyDeleteThere is another way to see your MW posts without tweaking your profile settings every so often.
ReplyDeleteCreate a new list, ie: MW-Gamers
Add all your MW playing friends to the list
Get the list ID by accessing from http://www.facebook.com/lists/
then bookmark the list. :-)
Hope that solves issues for those who may have any
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Jesper
Jesper, I already had a list for only mafia war players but this didn't work for me either. Thanks anyways.
Deletesimilar issue to me, all of post from mafia members in newsfeed have disappeared. i am stuck now.
ReplyDeleteSure is - I checked everything and everything is fine here STILL can't see 1 post from MW on my FB homepage. It really sucks and if they keep acting like this a lot of people will quit the game and FB because loads and loads of people are sick of them.
ReplyDeleteI am having this problem also. I have checked all my account & privacy settings. The one thing I have found is in the account settings under apps, then Mafia wars, I have 4 items saying required. I'm wondering if all those pop-ups I have been getting from fb wanting me to allow access to my account, which I've been ignoring, is the cause.
ReplyDeleteI began experiencing this news feed issue 2 days ago. Immediately checked to see if I had "blocked" mafia wars posts - and I had not. Finally got to comparing my settings to a friend of mine - and what we found was that I am missing the "Publish Game & App Activity" on my settings page. That is the only difference between our options - and I can't figure out how to get it back under my settings. HELP!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's been replaced:
Deletehttp://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=189144951150060
@ Onita I have the Publish Game and App Activity active on my acct and I don't have the feeds.
ReplyDeletei feel this is a sabotage by mafia wars to scare us away from this game...nice one...keep it up until we are decided to quit already...LOL
ReplyDeleteI have had this problem for three days now and no nearer getting a solution. Not seeing Mafia wars posts in Newsfeed..or in the separate list I have for Mafia friends. Posts are fine on my profile and if I go to a friends wall I can see them there. Two separate advisors from Zynga have given me different advice..all stuff I have tried already. Obviously a Facebook issue but as usual they do not respond..very annoying.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's been a couple of days now, and I get absolutely no Mafia Wars related posts on the news feed. MW Lootlady has experienced the same issues as well as a whole lot of others. It appears that this issue is gradually affecting Mafia Wars players accounts (which makes me think this is Zynga related issue).
ReplyDeleteIf it was a Facebook issue, I believe we would all be experiencing the problem at one time, rather than gradual (like when Zynga rolls out a new flawed feature).
If anyone hears of a fix, please let me know so that I can start seeing MW requests.
btw, my 4 mini-account news feeds are working just fine, but they have always seem to get the latest changes before my main account. Thanks!
Now on my 3rd Zynga advisor to whom I have obviously to explain the problem to all over again and who comes back with...exactly the same suggestions that the other two have given me...which bit of "don't you people talk to each other" and "the fixes don't fix" don't they get?!!
ReplyDeleteI can't get any Mafia Wars news feeds since December 5th. I have done EVERYTHING that Loot Lady and all the instructions say to do..nothing. I cannot play this game if I can't see any feeds. This must be widespread cause on my friends walls I see complaining of no help..well I can't help if I can't see anything! DANG YOU FACEBOOK OR ZYGNA ???
ReplyDeleteMy Mafia posts just suddenly reappeared on my Newsfeed this morning at around 9am GMT. I had being playing earlier with no posts showing and had made no change to the settings. It is still a mystery why they went away and equally a mystery as to what happened to bring them back after 4 days :-)
ReplyDeletejust found out that my mw-post were not showing up on the fb homepage since this morning.
ReplyDeletewhen they started the app-ticker i changed the accountsettings app-privacy :-this app can share with to "only me"
now when i checked my app-settings it says :App activity privacy:
Who can see POSTS and activity from this app on Facebook?
i tchanged it to "friends"
and now my posts show up again on the fb homepage
I have the same issue, no feeds since December 4th. I too contacted Zynga. They pointed the finger at FB. Typical Tech Person.
ReplyDeleteI'm experiencing the the same problem as LootLady. I've reported the issue to FB, I'll re-post if I get a response. I thought I was alone until I found this blog . No mention of the current issue anywhere else online?
ReplyDelete..
I opened all my settings and uninstalled and reinstalled Mafia but still can't see any of my families mafia news feeds but I can see everything else from my friends
ReplyDeleteI too are having the same probs, and today have shut down MW because It is costing me skill wise, gift wise, buildwise and RPwise because I had to pay for the last garden build all levels because nobody can see my requests. I am sick of pasting links to barely keep the game moving. I was told by Zynga mediator to change my browser (my browser is chrome) so I downloaded Firefox and family still could not see my wall and news feeds. Then I downloaded Opera and still had same probs. I think loot lady is right, it is a FaceBook problem.
ReplyDeleteI had this problem for about a week. I contacted TS when it first started. This is the response I received after live support couldn't fix it and escalated the incident. The posts reappeared with no further contact from support. Now I have the same problem on my mini's account.
ReplyDeleteHello,
I'll be more than happy to assist you in this matter. I was checking your particular issue and found that there are other accounts affected with this posting inconvenience. According to the Development Team, the resolution is in progress. Please, bear with us while we resolve this.
Unfortunately, I do not have an estimated time for this to be resolved. They are tracking all accounts affected in order to fix all of them at the same time. The issue is in development and will be applied soon in Mafia Wars.
Again my sincere apologies and thank you for playing Mafia Wars.
Regards,
Salvador Geovany
Zynga Player Advocate
Jen, it has been over 2 weeks since you posted this article, were you able to figure out what the problem was, and resolve the news feed issue? A good friend of mine is experiencing the same, and we have yet found the cause & solution to it. Thank you in advance for any pointers you may able to give us. :)
ReplyDeletePlease anyone...one of my account is having problems second one fine. All settings appear to be the same. So far no solution from tech support..they advise me to use another computer in their last message. I have done all the steps. There must be someone out there that has a work around.
ReplyDeleteSame issues here. Just started. I can see post from friends, just not Mafia War posts. I can go to their wall and see it there. At least with the posts above I now know it's not something I did.Facebook and Mafia Wars are supposed to be fun and relaxing. Starts to make you think if you should even continue...
ReplyDeleteSame issue here, i can't see a single MW post in my feeds or in any list that i have for friends or my WM family. It started yesterday and its still a no go. It's really driving me mad, my mini is displaying posts in my feeds and under it's lists. Just my main cant see crude. Ughhhhhhhhhhh frustrating and to a point of wanting to say the heck with it and walk away from MW and FB.
ReplyDeleteI first notice this issue today! Annoying. I guess just have to wait and see.
ReplyDeleteMyriam Smekens I wrote an email to Zynga and they solved it. They first started me to explain what to do and I said to them don't you think I already did that bullshit. I said the only people who are able to solve and fix are you and they did.
ReplyDeleteDecember 30, 2011 at 3:05pm ·
I wonder what is this so call Zynga fix OR the problem fixrd itself by Dec 30 , 3 weeks later
I think you just need to keep hitting the few mw posts that do come up and click hide on the pics that keep showing up until FB learns what you want to see the most of. The same thing happened to me a few days ago. It's back to normal again now
ReplyDeleteMine just disappeared tonight too. Really making me mad as I'm not able to collect parts on posts. I will give it until tomorrow morning and then start complaining to mafia wars cs and facebook. VERY IRRITATING!!!!
ReplyDeleteMine has been missing for 6 days now.. no Mafia Wars posts in my news feed. it is making it very difficult to upgrade the assassin academy. I have contacted Zynga and got a nice CS rep that upgraded my property 1 level for the inconvenience. I contacted FB also and have yet to get a reply. Hoping this issue is resolved soon.
ReplyDeleteFrom FACEBOOK.....
ReplyDeleteHi,
Thank you for submitting this bug report and the taking time to help us improve Facebook. Unfortunately, we are unable to respond to every bug report individually, but we are reading them.
For more information about issues currently affecting the site, please visit the Facebook Known Issues Page at https://www.facebook.com/KnownIssues. We appreciate your patience and feedback as we work to improve your Facebook experience.
Thanks,
The Facebook Team
Complained to ZYNGA due to loosing valuable time on "Limited Time" upgrade parts posts being lost out on (can not collect from feed)and have heard nothing from them....really starting to upset me....maybe it's time to deactivate account and get a life again.
Just happened to me - mine are gone now also. Sent email to support just for the purpose of making a date/time stamp of when the problem started, since I know they're probably not going to do anything. At least I'll be able to bitch and moan about all the stuff I wasn't able to complete because of it, and maybe get some decent compensation for a change.
ReplyDeleteI "had" this problem. Zynga CS blamed it on FB, and there is no FB CS that I am aware of, so it was sit and wait. My mini accounts were fine, so I knew it was not a Browser or JavaScript issue. Looking for answers on the MW Loot Lady's wall only got me a bitchy response about how some self appointed post policeman was tired of hearing about the problem. Your only recourse is to sit, suffer and wait. Apparently it fixes itself over time.
ReplyDeletei just tried your link and it worked thanks all of my posts are there
ReplyDeleteIt's a problem with your custom lists, I had to delete all of them and the ones I wanted to keep like mafia wars said always hide, so I unchecked. Looks to be working now. Hours working on that.
ReplyDeleteI am going on a week now with this problem and don't understand what to do to fix it. I looked into modifying custom lists and that did not help.
ReplyDeleteWell 3 yrs NO problems , now I am part of the NO mafia Wars Post in News feed. :(
ReplyDeleteI got timeline and then no more posts.
I checked-
1) news feed (favorites on wall page)( I clicked pencil) I am not blocking anything>
2) Nxt very bottom of my news feed (clicked Edit Options)
* I am NOT hiding anything.
3) My news feed is set to "recent"
4) Finally Mafia Has All rights approved ---->
Access my basic information
Access my profile information
Access information people share with me
Send me email
Post on my behalf
Access posts in my News Feed
Access my data any time
Access my custom friend lists
put your cursor in the search bar on the main FB wall
ReplyDeletehit the "arrow up" button on the keyboard
then, hit enter on the keyboard
reload the page for most recent posts
I have wall with post but my home feed is not picking them up. gave permission
ReplyDeleteI was having the same issue. Clicked edit setting for News feed. Mafia Wars was hidden.
ReplyDeleteWhy can not I see my posts on the wall of the mafia?
ReplyDelete