Facebook Links Require Login [2054, MOSTLY FIXED]

Marketplace Support Bug Reports
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I’m logged in… yet when I click on someone’s link on Facebook it tells me to log in again. Every time. This is a Facebook to MM problem so I’ll start with that. I have 0 issues finding these profiles if I go through my saved link.

What is a work around? I literally only want to see the profile logged in or not. Other people can see the posts but I wonder if they create their MM profile directly though Facebook.
But after two seconds it refreshes and kicks me off the post, and then it refreshes again telling me to log in. Keep in mind this is only happening when I do an online social media browser vs my phones saved browser which is already logged on. All the time I’m still on the same phone except I’m going through Facebook instead of my saved link.

I guess my problem with it is; If I didn’t have a MM account at all, I’d get frustrated and definitely not create a profile because my attention span is 2 seconds long and not willing to create a profile to see some link off facebook. Imagine what all the potential new members are thinking? They can’t even access it to see if it is something worth their time.

Yea… I could just log in again… but why? I should be able to see profiles with out being logged in. I should be able to see this regardless if I’m even a member, this guy asked if his post was okay and I couldn’t even look at it without logging in. I’m just annoyed because I’m already logged in! I can go to my saved link and see his profile perfectly but it takes 3 more steps.

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Edit; spell checking and adding a few missing sentences :joy:

Edit#130; My auto correct kills me worse than my orginal spelling :upside_down_face:

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Thank you @mattcookreptiles :+1:

Facebook makes it really hard to open links externally from the FB app. Generally, you click a link and the in-app facebook browser will display the page. They don’t want you to leave the app… this is there motivation.

What is happening is that FB is using the PWA (MorphMarket App) inside of the FB in-app browser. I didn’t even know that was possible but it appears so, and because it’s FB in-app browser, it’s like opening it in a new context which would mean you will have to login again.

We’re working on fixing it, I’m not sure how the dev team is getting along with it but with the release of our upcoming Play Store/App Store App, this will go away.

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Matt it’s a big problem, and one we’re aware of. We have a plan to fix it but it is not simple thus has been taking a while to get out (will be when we launch our app).

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This issue is mostly fixed now. We still plan to make it better in the future, but it should now at least open up the links without requiring login.

The downside is that the user is still not logged in already as they might expect, and that is because they are in the Facebook web browser, not the general one.

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