There are obvious bugs with Facebook. If I click on a notification of a comment reply, it, more often than not, does not take me to that comment. What seems to happen is that it takes me to the comments page for the post, and even opens the thread automatically, but turns on "Most Relevant" comments, and, for some reason, doesn't consider a comment that literally mentions me, of which I just clicked on the notification to see, as relevant. So you click "All Comments," but then it refreshes and the thread is no longer open. So you have to scroll to the top level comment which, if the post is particularly popular with thousands of top level comments, is impossible.

This has been like this for a long time, possibly years. And that's just one manifestation of this type of issue with notifications not taking you where they should.

At first I attributed it to malice. I believed they were trying to stifle long, argumentative conversations for one reason or another. But I've since realized it happens regardless of the conversation. It could be a friendly chat with you cousin on photos of their wedding.

The thing is, too, that Facebook wants this type of engagement. This type of engagement is what keeps people on their website. There have been many times where I was stuck on Facebook in an argument with someone and couldn't get to the notification, so I just decided to leave all together.

It's crazy that such a massive bug which directly impacts their user engagement, which is a major factor in how much money they make, goes unfixed for years.

It's to the point where most people I've talked to just accept it and don't even consider it a bug. It's just the way it is. As if it's intentional or something. The public just accepts that modern software is shitty.