{"id":65822,"date":"2012-11-29T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T08:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=65822"},"modified":"2012-11-29T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T13:02:08","slug":"facebook-bug-re-adds-users-to-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/65822-facebook-bug-re-adds-users-to-groups.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook bug re-adds users to groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>A new bug found on <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> re-adds users to groups they had once left &#8211; and to some that users had never been a part of in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this, some users are experiencing massive amounts of notifications from groups previously joined, as well as new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is currently working on the problem, and has issued a statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bug surfaced last night that caused some users to be re-added to groups that they previously belonged to. We are working to resolve the issue now. In the meantime, we are rolling out a short-term fix for all closed groups that will make the content of those groups inaccessible to the re-added members.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/community\/question\/?id=493605187340287\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook community forum <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Facebook to share data with Instagram\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/65266-facebook-to-share-data-with-instagram.html\">Facebook to share data with Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Facebook experimenting with \u201cwant\u201d button\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61704-facebook-experimenting-with-want-button.html\">Facebook experimenting with \u201cwant\u201d button<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61602-facebook-vest-lets-users-hug-from-afar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook vest lets users hug from afar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook asked to explain Timeline glitch\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/60581-facebook-asked-to-explain-timeline-glitch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook asked to explain Timeline glitch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users experience mass notifications after being re-added to old groups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":50879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161,17214,17210,17212,7979],"class_list":["post-65822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-bug","tag-facebook-groups","tag-groups","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}