There used to be a really cool feature to notify a user of a post without having to comment, you could click “Share” and then there would be a notify button. This functionality seems to have disappeared and I couldn’t find any release update saying it had been removed. Is this a bug?

[image] Notify Feature can be easily abused Feature The removal is now merged ship From the inception of meta we have 377 usages of this feature. In the last week it was used 5 times. 2 times to notify an anonymous user. 1 time to bug @codinghorror about the topic discussing this feature 1 time to test on discobot 1 time which may or may not be legit. Feature is mostly abandonware and for very good reason. Looking wider into the industry Facebook have 2 features that are similar: User poking: https://www.facebook.com/help/21996772803…

Share>Notify feature has disappeared

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maiki (maiki) August 11, 2022, 10:45pm 2

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Share>Notify feature has disappeared

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