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Facebook outlived its usefulness 8 or 9 years ago. If you're still using it in 2020, then you kind of deserve whatever you get.
It’s borderline unusable, but I suspect this might be intentionally done to drive users to the mobile app.
I have no opinion on the Facebook designs but I'm so tickled to see this post. What a blast from the past! I thought "the new Facebook design sucks" posts died out ten years ago :-D
Posting about how the new Facebook design sucks on a blog which I can't read because the blogging platform sucks.
I have an idea for a revolutionary blogging platform, would you like to hear? It's kind of like facebook for wordpress with a twist. We're looking to raise $378M to have sufficient runway.
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…
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.
Give it a week and everyone will have gotten used to it.
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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.
That link at the bottom is for a video. I can't figure out how to watch that video in old Reddit. But if you load this post up in new Reddit, the video plays in line.
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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.
the ability to easily filter/unfilter users from my feed is a much more user-friendly solution to that problem.
I want to see the photos my crazy aunt posts of her family and dogs, but I would love to not see the alt-right political memes she also posts.
I can do this already to some extent by simply blocking certain sources that she's reposting from. It's harder to do when the content is copied and pasted.
I have no opinion on the Facebook designs but I'm so tickled to see this post. What a blast from the past! I thought "the new Facebook design sucks" posts died out ten years ago :-D
Ha, I remember being in high school and having the same debate. I think users reject dramatic change but slowly get used to it. The exception is “new Reddit”, which is still widely disliked in favor of https://old.reddit.com .
Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/(.*) to: https://old.reddit.com/$1 Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeServer/ → https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeServer/
I also (apparently) use it to redirect mobile wikipedia to regular wikipedia.