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Re: Facebook Pay

#101

Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…

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Re: Facebook Pay

#102

Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…

Dude, we are hype and cool and we have the power of JS and CSS transitions at our fingertips. Why should we sacrifice our amazing experience that all end-users love just to please some purist-wannabe power user who enjoys to read content without hindrances, delays and amazing visual effects based on carefully-calculated bezier curves by our best-of-class team?

100%. I don't get all this negativity! I love animations and wasteful frivolous effects. They really jazz up my day. Huge typography, rounded buttons, and massive amounts of negative space reduces stress, and improves my mental health. Really does the job! I don't think I can ever go back to "good ol" days of "functional design". Pfff...it is all so boring. I like mindless consumption and basically buy anything I see in an ad.

Re: Facebook Pay

#104

I can’t think of another company I’d want less to know my transaction and purchase history than FB/Meta. What happened to Zuckerberg’s shift to “video” or are they truly throwing anything and everything at the wall now?

I agree.

The terrible thing is is that it's the easiest solution for me and my friend group to send money via Messenger.

The US has _really_ dropped the ball on any sort of easy-to-use, standardized money transfer. Zelle is the closest thing and it is a joke for every day usability.

Re: Facebook Pay

#105

I can’t think of another company I’d want less to know my transaction and purchase history than FB/Meta. What happened to Zuckerberg’s shift to “video” or are they truly throwing anything and everything at the wall now?

They want to monetize the Facebook mommy groups and similar that basically destroyed Craigslist.

I’m surprised it took this long.

Re: Facebook Pay

#106
post #26

The company, which hasn't been able to figure out the UI hell of the core product for more than a decade now must never be trusted with processing payments. Especially when you know where the data will end up, what will happen to it next and how the company makes money (98.5% from targeted ads)

Whenever they achieve a decent UI, they change it six months later.

Re: Facebook Pay

#107

Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…

The same "scroll-to-load" thing is on Apple News' article images as well and it drives me up the wall. It's nothing but bad UX.

Re: Facebook Pay

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook had a multimillion dollar business (yes, million, not trillion, but this was solid) in the form of FB marketplace. That was the one part of FB that was super useful and if they hooked it up with a secure payment system that worked with these kinds of transactions it could have been amazing. Instead they squandered it on ads, as they always do. The platform is now unusable.

Is there any good alternative to FB MarketPlace these days? Craigslist is just too old fashioned and most people I know don't use it anymore.

I suspect a lot of the alternatives are pretty regional, for example tori.fi in Finland.

Re: Facebook Pay

#109

I can’t think of another company I’d want less to know my transaction and purchase history than FB/Meta. What happened to Zuckerberg’s shift to “video” or are they truly throwing anything and everything at the wall now?

I agree. The terrible thing is is that it's the easiest solution for me and my friend group to send money via Messenger. The US has _really_ dropped the ball on any sort of easy-to-use, standardized money transfer. Zelle is the closest thing and it is a joke for every day usability.

US instant payments drop in 2023. Definitely sucks it took this long, but it’ll be ubiquitous and replaces ACH.

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....

Re: Facebook Pay

#110

I can’t think of another company I’d want less to know my transaction and purchase history than FB/Meta. What happened to Zuckerberg’s shift to “video” or are they truly throwing anything and everything at the wall now?

Facebook doesn't sell your information outright, Credit Card companies do.
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