It feels like signing into AOL back in 1998!
Facebook gets redesigned
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Re: Facebook gets redesigned
#12For those who are not lucky enough (ha!) to enjoy the new design, here's a small glimpse: https://img.skitch.com/20110921-rfae5d2pera2ig7ugbupd4pf61.j...
It is mind-jarringly chaotic on my Home screen. Not wise.
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#13As opposed to previous minor redesigns, this time Facebook has complete lost it. Basically what you're missing out on is "subscribing" to non-friends a-la-Twitter, horrible page layouts, numerous bugs, and way too many options and configurations. No Facebook, I do not want to manage my friends as if this is some kind of war room. Stop it. And someone please let Zuck know that we're not in 1999 anymore. Floating frame…
I don't think so. I think they're backgrounding (side-bar'ing) random friend activity and designating the center stream for capital-c Content. Subscriptions, active threads, messaging from Like'd entities...the center box is commerce-oriented, the sidebar is for communications and for contributing to entities (comments, photos, statuses, etc.) defined as candidates for the center stream.
I believe that the center stream will be where the half-page forced-Chevrolet ad is going to go, the changes of late all point in this direction. Think: monetization and profit.
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#14I'm not one of the lucky few who gets to see it, unfortunately. Thus... Screenshots pl0x.
http://cl.ly/AJp0
Having a 27" screen, I don't mind it. The only things that bug me is the triangle at the top of each post, and your profile pic up in the header (which now floats)
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#15I've had this for a couple of weeks (weirdly). You never get used to it and you always feel like you're missing something. Even more annoying is the little status updates in the top right, above the sidebar showing everyone of your friends recent activity (which I really liked) seems to have gone now.
You never get used to it and you always feel like you're missing something.
I'll bet this is explicitly intentional as a driver to spend more time on Facebook.
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#16Facebook users, your Homer Car™ is ready for you.
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#17I hate to be one of those people constantly whinging about Facebook redesigns, but ... can someone explain why Facebook seems to intent on "curating" your stream for you, based on priorities that aren't clear? I know a lot of people probably enjoy having some definition of "highlights" stuck at top, but many of us like going through the whole thing to see what all our friends are up to, until you get to a status update you recognize, which means that you know you're done looking. What does FB lose by taking away the ability to see a simple chronological list of updates? What do they gain by foregrounding the posts that they think are important?
Edited to add: Several people replied to me saying "But some of us DON'T want to see a big chronological list!" Well, yeah, I said in my original post that I realized this. And in fact you already had the option to see only "Top news" instead of "All posts." What bugs me is the one-size-fits-all version that has now been imposed on everybody. Why is FB allergic to allowing different users to interact with their data in the way those users want?
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#18The thing that scares me most about this redesign is that Facebook is spending resources making half baked UX changes instead of focusing energy into doing something new an innovative.
Lists might have their place in the future, and somehow users might get used to a more cluttered design. Ultimately, these types of features are tweaks on a product and not a game changer.
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#19Each redesign they do lately seems to bring them closer to the look & feel of myspace.
wtf are they thinking?
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#20As opposed to previous minor redesigns, this time Facebook has complete lost it. Basically what you're missing out on is "subscribing" to non-friends a-la-Twitter, horrible page layouts, numerous bugs, and way too many options and configurations. No Facebook, I do not want to manage my friends as if this is some kind of war room. Stop it. And someone please let Zuck know that we're not in 1999 anymore. Floating frame…
I don't think so. I think they're backgrounding (side-bar'ing) random friend activity and designating the center stream for capital-c Content. Subscriptions, active threads, messaging from Like'd entities...the center box is commerce-oriented, the sidebar is for communications and for contributing to entities (comments, photos, statuses, etc.) defined as candidates for the center stream. I believe that the center str…
Along those same lines, I'd bet that the floating section was added to get more eyeballs looking on the right side of the screen where the ads are.