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The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by stanrivers »

nickfromseattle wrote: post #26
jbverschoor wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More time required = more bouncing users. I even skip a 5 sponsored ad on youtube. I have no patience for this stuff. The first thing I do is scroll to the comments to see the list of thing the video says (for example top 5 things to eat, or whatever), as I have no patience for these videos being longer just so they get ranked higher, because that's the metric youtube is currently using. I read HN headlines + top com…

Facebook rolls out UI changes in less valuable markets to gather data to verify their changes don't decrease engagement.

Oh wow this is interesting / something to remember for my own life. So basically, they might try something out first in [small country] and if it works go to [medium country] and then if it stills works roll out to everyone?

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Post by Nextgrid »

jbverschoor wrote: post #22
Nextgrid wrote: post #2

Less information density = more time required to read the same amount of content = more "engagement". This is the exact same reason behind the algorithmic timeline: since you can't easily tell whether you've reached the end (up to where you left off last time), you keep scrolling more, thus more time spent and more opportunities for ads to show up. This trend will continue until users revolt against this by refusing…

More time required = more bouncing users. I even skip a 5 sponsored ad on youtube. I have no patience for this stuff. The first thing I do is scroll to the comments to see the list of thing the video says (for example top 5 things to eat, or whatever), as I have no patience for these videos being longer just so they get ranked higher, because that's the metric youtube is currently using. I read HN headlines + top com…

You are a minority and/or your behavior is only possible because there are alternative/better sources for the content you’re looking for, allowing you to skip the bullshit and get the same/similar content on a different source (like HN) with a better experience.

Most of the content on FB is either exclusive to it (all your friends are on there) or the majority of their target market doesn’t know/care about finding other sources which provide that content with a better experience.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by [deleted] »

Barrin92 wrote: post #20

Don't really agree with the criticism, to me the interface feels cleaner and less cluttered. > It’s confusing and feels very “oversized.” I don't see how it's confusing. Contacts on the right, navigation bar at the top, Groups, friends and so on on the left, feed in the middle, all visually separated. > Of the 5 main giant buttons (navigation icons) at the top of the page, none of them are notifications — arguably th…

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Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by Kiro »

kolsby wrote: post #28

Yeah sure the new design makes poor use of screen real estate, but the deal breaker for me is the memory consumption and extreme lag when using it. I find it extremely surprising that Facebook’s flagship product fails to leverage React’s optimizations.

For me, the chat has started lagging a lot which is strange since it was the pioneering ReasonML project, which they praised a lot after the rewrite.

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Post by umvi »

Nextgrid wrote: post #2

Less information density = more time required to read the same amount of content = more "engagement". This is the exact same reason behind the algorithmic timeline: since you can't easily tell whether you've reached the end (up to where you left off last time), you keep scrolling more, thus more time spent and more opportunities for ads to show up. This trend will continue until users revolt against this by refusing…

Is this why reddit made its new UI's layout much less information dense?

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Post by eznzt »

Nextgrid wrote: post #2

Less information density = more time required to read the same amount of content = more "engagement". This is the exact same reason behind the algorithmic timeline: since you can't easily tell whether you've reached the end (up to where you left off last time), you keep scrolling more, thus more time spent and more opportunities for ads to show up. This trend will continue until users revolt against this by refusing…

>Less information density = more time required to read the same amount of content = more "engagement".

No.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by Kiro »

I don't even remember what the old design looked like. Like always, I will probably hate any redesign in the future saying they should revert back to the current design and then quickly get used to it. Rinse and repeat.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by patfla »

I've never spent a lot of time on FB and with the interface change, I avoid FB even more than I did before. Interfaces with fewer, larger elements always strike me as a dumbing down. Companies that offer (insist upon) that may have the numbers to justify it but they lose my engagement. Meaning, either I don't use them at all or as little as possible.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by djsumdog »

Facebook UI changes are designed specifically to make you frustrated .. frustrated enough that you spend time getting to know the new UI (spending more time on the platform), but not over frustrating so you stop using it.

I doubt this went live without it going through hundreds of focus groups to find that sweetspot to maximize every user's value as ad revenue.

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