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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Facebook And The Missing Game Feed Posts

Game players all over the world and from, what appears to be, every game are noticing that their game feed posts are not appearing on the Facebook newsfeeds.

The game feed posts that do appear on the Facebook feeds have broken links.

If you see any on your wall and you click on them you might find something similar to either of the images shown above.

The issue IS NOT a Zynga related issue.

It IS a Facebook issue and it has been rumored that the issue was caused by a virus that was attacking the Facebook Timeline.

According to a Zynga update that can be found on the Mafia Wars Support Page the issue was caused by Facebook updates to the Timeline.

My posts are not visible

Thu Mar 28 07:48:28 EDT 2013 (0) like

Dear Mobster,
We have received reports from players who are unable to see posts on their Timeline or their own posts are not visible on the feeds.

It seems to be an issue with the new Timeline updates.

We would like to reassure that we are doing all we can to find a solution to help you out as quickly as possible!

There is no need to submit a ticket to Customer Support for this issue.

Thank you very much for your understanding Mobster.

Luckily there are a few workarounds for the missing Facebook game feeds.

The easiest fix, although a little confusing (for some) and a little time-consuming, would be to create short links of your feed requests.

This is accomplished by visiting your Facebook profile page and locating any recent (unexpired) game feed post that you shared to your wall.

Next, hover your mouse (cursor) over the blue letters of the post heading.

Then right-click on your mouse to bring up a dialog box and left click where it says ‘Copy Link Address’. In different browsers (other than Chrome) this might say something like "’Copy URL’.

You then need to open a new browser window and visit Tiny URL.Com (most recommended) or another link shortening service.Locate the section where it says ‘Enter A Long URL To Make Tiny’.

Tiny Url 2

Hover your mouse (cursor) over the empty text box and right-click and click paste. This inserts the link that you copied into the text box.

Now click the button that says ‘Make Tiny URL!’.

This creates a the shortened link that can now be copied and pasted anywhere you need it posted.

To copy the link you need to drag your mouse (cursor) across the link (Shown in the above image; The link that needs to be copied is located where we have it highlighted in a red box). To copy the link you need to click and drag your mouse (cursor) across the link then release and right click.

Once you click ‘copy’ the link is in your clipboard and is now ready to pasted any where that you would like to, or need to, paste it.

When you paste your copied Tiny Url, or short link, we recommend that you add before or after it a short description of what the link is for. The following is an example of what your shortened link should look like;

Easter Eggs http://tinyurl.com/EasterEggs32813

It would be a good idea to locate and become members of help groups on Facebook that allow you to post these links. You might need to add a few friends.

If you run/operate/host or know of any of these help groups please share links to them in our comments or in the comments of this Mafia Spirit Fanpage image. The players appreciate your help.

Our friends, Mirna and Vla, of the Mafia Wars By Zynga Blog posted earlier today about how to report a problem to Facebook.

The following is a reposting from the Mafia Wars By Zynga Blog;

Facebook News Feed - Big Issue

GAMES ARE NOT SHOWING ON FACEBOOK NEWS FEEDS!

HOW TO REPORT A PROBLEM!

CHECK IMAGES BELLOW, Please!

1.IMAGES ARE ON TIMELINES, BUT THEY ARE NOT ON FB NEWS FEEDS.

2. If you have same problem, REPORT IT TO FB

How to report? FOLLOW IMAGES!

STEP ONE!

STEP TWO!

STEP 3!

STEP FOUR!

YOU CAN ALSO REPORT IT AS BUG.
On the right side find option Games are not showing in the News Feeds

reply from Facebook Team

Originally Posted by Vladimir Vapski on Mafia Wars By Zynga Blog

At this point I don’t know if it is necessary to report an issue to Facebook as they are likely aware of the issue. On the other hand, it wouldn’t harm anyone if you decided to report an issue. It could help Facebook to determine how many players are/were affected by the issue.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Easter Eggselence And Hopper’s Delight Collection

If you follow Mafia Spirit regularly on our Facebook page then you’d have been expecting an Easter themed event. We posted an image of the Egghunter on Wednesday, March 20th. This should have given you ample time to get excited for the Easter Eggselence Event.

This event has you collecting Easter Eggs that you you will need to redeem for awesome loot and to complete a new Collection (Hopper’s Delight).

How To Play:

Collect Easter Eggs to redeem them for awesome loot. Collecting Easter Eggs will also help you find all the 7 items from the Hopper's Delight Collection.

You can Earn upto 175 Easter Eggs per day from Jobs, Fights, Robbing, Feeds, Gifting and the Arena.

Collect and spend as many Easter Eggs as you can for 10 days, after which you will have another 2 days to complete your Collection and redeem them for awesome loot.

Keep track of your Daily Easter Egg hunting by clicking the info checkmark on the home-page banner;

Activities	Daily Limit	Earned today
Jobs	35	12
Fights	25	20
Robbing	25	0
Arena	35	0
Feeds	45	11
Gifting	10	0

* All daily limit timers reset at 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time ( GMT-7)

How To Redeem Eggs:

Collect Easter Eggs (575 in total just to redeem the loot items one time each; 1725 to redeem for each loot item 3 times)

Redeem Easter Eggs for some awesome loot items.

Loot items are redeemed in a sequence. For example, Egg Hunter will remain locked until Eggzecutor has been redeemed at least once.
Monster Bunny will remain locked until Eggzecutor and Egg Hunter have been redeemed at least once and so on.

A loot item can be redeemed for a maximum of 3 times.

Easter eggs can also be purchased for Reward Points.

Collections:

Earn or purchase 150 Easter Eggs to fill up the Progress Bar and find an item from the Hopper's Delight Collection.

The progress bar will reset once a Collection item has been found.

Redeeming Easter Eggs for loot items will not affect the progress bar.

Find all 7 collection items to complete the Hopper's Delight Collection.

Vault the Collection to get a Great Bunny

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THIS IS A LIMITED TIME EVENT SO GET "CRACKING". THIS EVENT STARTS ON 3/23/2013 08:00:00 PDT AND ENDS ON 4/4/2013 08:00:00 PDT.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

More Facebook Evolution – Timeline And News Feeds Getting A New Look

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Image via CrunchBase

We knew changes were coming to Facebook. On March 1st Mafia Spirit shared a ReadWrite.com article that was titled ‘Facebook Tests Timeline Redesign In New Zealand.’

The news today from acebook is there will be a new look for feeds. The new feed are designed with the intent of reducing clutter and to focus more on the stories that you care about (Like all our posts here at Mafia Spirit). In addition to having a brighter and more beautiful look and feel the types of feeds that interest you will be easier to locate and separate from those that don’t interest you.

A New Look for News Feed

March 07, 2013

To make sure you're seeing all the stories you want to see, we're introducing several new feeds to explore in addition to the same News Feed you have today:

News Feed

Most Recent

All Friends

Photos

Music

Following

Games

Groups

- All Friends - a feed that shows you everything your friends are sharing
- Photos - a feed with nothing but photos from your friends and the Pages you like
- Music - a feed with posts about the music you listen to
- Following - a feed with the latest news from the Pages you like and the people you follow.

With the new design, now Facebook has the same look and feel on mobile, tablet and web. For example, the left-hand menu is accessible anywhere you go on Facebook. You also have a way to jump right to the top of News Feed whenever new stories come in.

Facebook will be rolling out the new design slowly over the coming weeks on the web and mobile devices. Facebook is offering you to get it early. Simply visit www.facebook.com/newsfeed and add yourself to the waiting list.

If you have an iPhone or iPad these design updates will be available in the coming weeks and soon after for Android users.

Behind the redesign

Learn more about the thinking behind the new look.

Get to Know the New Design for News Feed

By Greg Marra - Today at 2:00pm

Today we announced a fresh, new look for News Feed on web, tablet and mobile. This design aims to make it easier for people to access the things they care about. For developers, this new design improves how the content appears in News Feed and how people can use bookmarks to reengage with apps.

In the new design, the things people share through apps are larger and more engaging in News Feed. We're also making it easier for people to access their game and music feeds, now accessible from the top right area. To take advantage of this new design, we encourage you to optimize for high-resolution feed stories on both web and mobile by providing 600X600 pixel images (minimum 200X200 px).

Bookmarks are now more relevant for people and appear on every page. Bookmarks are an important way for people to reengage with apps, and we've made improvements so people can quickly access the games and apps they use the most. These ever-present bookmarks will also display the notification counter from the most recent game requests to help drive re-engagement with players.

We are beginning a slow rollout of this new design today. We will be testing and closely monitoring key metrics to optimize this experience for both users and developers.