Apr 9, 2015

News Feed & Gifting Errors Revisited

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As outlined in a previous post, there are issues with the News Feeds and ZMC [1]. When the first wave hit a few days ago, there were many reports on our fan page. A second wave must have hit today because there are many more reports of errors in the news feeds and ZMC. Players are also reporting that they have lost gifts but I don’t know if that’s related. This is due to Facebook updating the API. Once your account is hit, you will experience issues for about 5 or 6 hours and then it should be returned to normal. As mentioned on our fan page and in the comments of the linked post, if you don’t want to wait than go to your Recruit page and click on the ‘Remove Non-Friends From My Mafia’ link (Family or Mafia tab -> Recruit -> Remove Non-Friends From My Mafia and things should go back to normal. Kostas Sirganis also posted on our fan page to accept your pending Mafia Request (on the Recruit page as well) [1],[2]. If you haven’t yet experienced this issue, you will eventually. Thanks to Pasi Peltola for the screen shot and to everyone who posted workarounds on our fan page.

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13 comments:

  1. told me i have to much friends and ony 7 delete - now i have to wait 48! hrs to do that again why ? :)

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    1. It's always been that way. The game will only remove a handful of players every 48 hours. If you want to remove them all at once than use the Mafia Manager by Team Spockholm. I think just clicking it once in the game will resolve the error issues.

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    2. 5 or 5 hours? That's a joke. I'm starting my fifth day with the problem with no end in sight.

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  2. I have been experiencing gift and feed errors for a solid 16 hours now. Someone gave me a workaround (remove non-friend mafia members on the recruit page). It worked for the return of about 10 gifts and then every gift I tried to return after the 10, gave the same error message as before. My feed has been completely pooched all day too. I don't have nearly enough helper tasks done to complete the perk, and it looks like I'm not going to get the Easter event completed either, thanks to this.

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    1. It has now been over 24 hours and I'm still stuck not being able to receive gifts, provide help or get help. I have done all the workaround tricks and... nothing works.

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  3. I have been having problems for over a week, I have removed non friends from my mafia and i have run mafia manager. I still have the issues of "you are not friends with this person & can't accept my gifts for the most part & can't send gifts properly.

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  4. I used gift-blaster (spockholm) to send all my MW-members a free gift and that solved it for me.

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    1. Same for me I use gift - blaster to send, np send to all my mafia, and collect all gifts manual, also np .Might take a few minutes, but what the heck, nothing wrong with doing a few things manual lol.

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  5. all in our family are experiencing this issue: using giftblaster will solve nothing because ZMC still looks empty. Collecting from activity will cause to items to disappear. Talked to zynga and they didn't understand because they need a screenshot .. of a disappeared item?!? as usual, they don't know what mafia wars is ..

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  6. You can only send parts to friend

    Half the feed links I click on yield that message now.

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  7. Not in Mafia
    You are not currently in xxxxxmafia and can't help them. Send them a mafia request so you can fight together in battle. Send a request.

    This new wave of errors where I can't receive gifts, return gifts, or help in any way is going to end the game for me unless corrected in a hurry. I've been playing since the beginning and had some great times, but the current game looks and plays nothing like the game of many years ago. So much of the game is tied into the news feed and it has lost the basic fun factor for me. I'm only playing now to help friends who apparently are not friends according to Zynga...oh well, maybe it's for the best.

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  8. Thank you for this information. I'll try to wait it out.

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  9. OK i haven't had these probs yet ,but for 3 months now on feed when i click a mafia post to help with begs or collect say Easter basket thingy s. i get white page i cant collect or help ..mw wont load from a feed post and stream scanner hasn't worked in months ..i have three accts and rely on these thing s and scripts if i cant find out why then that's 3 more accts gonna close. everything has been updated and i share an acct with fam member she can do one of my accts it works fine when i try same acct i get white page....it has to be in my fb and or mafia wars settings,some where.

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