Posting about how the new Facebook design sucks on a blog which I can't read because the blogging platform sucks.
Oooh I didn't expect a tu quoque as the first comment.
The New Facebook Design Sucks
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#52One thing I love about new Facebook is the accessibility. As a blind user, old FB was close to unusable, the consensus in the community was to use mbasic.facebook.com, which lacked a lot of features and was designed for (keyboard based) feature phones.
The new FB works much, much better, and I personally switched to it a long time ago.
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#53The reality is while there's a vocal minority, and that it may be subjectively worse, the design was absolutely A/B tested and performed better in whatever KPI's Facebook chose as their goals (such as ad revenue, session length, engagement metrics). That's the simple answer. Full disclosure: I haven't logged on Facebook much in the past couple years.
Very possible that the majority of people who truly care about these things "haven't logged on Facebook much in the past couple years". I very much fall into that category. There are so many awful things about it that the UI is the least of my reasons for drastically limiting usage.
Wow! Talk about Grand Delusions!. Facebook has over a 2 Billion users. You can bet they can find far superior designers than you in that sliver of A/B test population.
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#54Don'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…
> This I don't understand at all because for me the second button from the right in the top bar literally is the notification button.
Sure, but it's not one of the main, prominent buttons. It looks the same as "search" and "menu", IIRC. I definitely keep getting confused by it every time and click groups, which is useless to me.
I hate the new design, and not just because it's different.
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#55Less 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…
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#57I 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.
I don't know, maybe I'm better about removing bad habits but when this happened to reddit I just stopped using the site. I don't even know what any of the facebook designs look like except whatever they had ~2007 though.
I still use old reddit, but if I'm logged out or somehow come across the new version, I just close the tab. It's just terrible, and I'll stop using the site when the old version is gone.
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#58Less 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…
Algorithmic timelines have objective advantages: they can keep the most frequent posters from drowning everyone else.
That's of course not to say they aren't maliciously misused.
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#59Earlier 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…
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 ot…
I am a minority. I uused a chrome extension before to filter out posts that were liked by many people. Also, I forced it to be chronological. I was very happy, until it didn't work anymore.
Most posts these days are tiktok reposts anyway. The only things I like about fb these days:
- Some groups I'm in
- I like the marketplace
- For people to find me
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#60The reality is while there's a vocal minority, and that it may be subjectively worse, the design was absolutely A/B tested and performed better in whatever KPI's Facebook chose as their goals (such as ad revenue, session length, engagement metrics). That's the simple answer. Full disclosure: I haven't logged on Facebook much in the past couple years.
Facebook has 2 Billion+ Users. it's funny that some rank nobody using five other rank nobody's tweets determined "it sucks".
The delusions of people, who think they represent popular opinion is very strong in blogger/HN/reddit/twitter bubble