You can set the feed (on the phone or the website) to "most recent" as opposed to "top stories"; doing this supposedly undoes the EdgeRank filtering and gives you a reverse chronological feed of what your friends are posting. But I find it also throws in random posts from people or pages that your friends comment on, and also keeps bumping your friends posts that are getting comments from your other friends further up in the feed, so it becomes unnavigable in its own way.
> You can set the feed (on the phone or the website) to "most recent" as opposed to "top stories"
No, you can't on the current version of the Android app (they took that out recently), though you can go to a separate "Most Recent" feed from another menu -- the primary feed (and the one that gets a red badge for new messages to draw you back to it) is always Top Stories.
> doing this supposedly undoes the EdgeRank filtering and gives you a reverse chronological feed of what your friends are posting.
"Most recent" gives you a reverse chronological feed (mostly, though I've sometimes observed posts out-of-order in "Most Recent"), but it doesn't appear to undo EdgeRank filtering.
> But I find it also throws in random posts from people or pages that your friends comment on, and also keeps bumping your friends posts that are getting comments from your other friends further up in the feed, so it becomes unnavigable in its own way.
The primary "Top Stories" feed seems to do the same thing, except that it doesn't automatically push the most recent updates to the top -- it does seem to promote posts further up based on more recent interactions from friends.
Same problem in the latest ios app. I uninstalled it and added a bookmark to m.facebook.com in its place. As a bonus I'm no longer bothered by a bunch of notifications from group messages (which you couldn't switch off in that app either since the messages tab just displayed an ad for their separate messages app).
Yup, and it still doesn't show everything from people it decides you don't need to see because you don't interact with them very often. AFAICT "most recent" is just "top stories" in a different order.
Besides which, it seems to switch back to "Top Stories" all by itself every so often.
