Facebook's authentication changes have now finally stopped the old (2014?) official client for Windows Phone 8.1 from being able to log in, as anyone with an older Lumia should be able to verify. With the platform itself now not supported by Microsoft, such major service/client failures are not surprising. What is surprising is that finding alternative means of logging into Facebook are also not easy. Though, as ever, I do have a solution for AAWP readers still clinging to Windows Phone 8.1!

Telegram has been in the news in recent times as having strong security that's even got the Russians worried. Telegram Messenger is the official client for all Windows phones and it's still getting decent updates, even though WP8.1 itself is now not officially supported. Which is quite impressive, perhaps speaking to the fact that an awful lot of older Windows phones are still in use around the world and that many of them don't like governments (or even Google or Apple) tracking what they want to say...(!)

The world of Internet services moves at a pace and it's not surprising that older platforms don't get on fully with the latest services and APIs. In this case it's the official Twitter client for Windows Phone 8.1 that has stopped working - we did know that this might happen at the start of June, according to Twitter's own announcements. You'll remember that they ? Don't panic if you're on 8.1 though, third party clients come to the rescue.

A year ago, I , a WinRT 'universal' app for Windows Phone 8.1 and above - it worked, but wasn't exactly optimised for anything, wasn't a true Windows 10 app, and showed a distinct lack of care and attention. The hope was that Slack would continue development, but this never happened in terms of functionality and now the company says that future development is very definitely over.