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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 rglullis »

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…

> This trend will continue until users revolt against this by refusing to use engagement-funded services in favor of service they actually pay for.

Will they revolt, though? Will consumers pay for it, though?

I sure hope so, as this is basically the whole reason I started working on communick[0]. But every feedback I've been collecting so far has been along the lines of "You should target this for the enterprise, not end-users". I went to Brave's BAT subreddit (a group of people supposedly tech-savvy people and who I thought were privacy-conscious) to ask them how/if they would like to spend the BAT received in privacy-oriented services[1]. The answers were depressing.

Granted, I was not expecting communick to be an overnight success and there is still a lot of work to be done to help people get onboard - both the technology and the privacy-first mindset. But even running super-lean I am far from covering my operational costs. If I don't get to the end of year and it is still not paying itself, I guess I will have to pivot and focus only on enterprise customers.

[0]: https://communick.com

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/i46g72/howwhere...

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by jabroni_salad »

The layout is just okay. Personally I think they are wanting FB to be a mobile-first service kind of like Instagram is. Insta was to the point where you used to not even be able to log in on a computer.

My problem is that the main feed has been completely useless to me for years. Here's what I would really like to see:

- Direct posts from an inner circle at the top

- Direct posts from acquaintances / posts in groups that I am a member of

- Reshares either gone or deprioritized from any direct post

- Ability to mute all reshares from a person instead of the current functionality of muting the individual source page.

Currently if I use my bookmark to my mother's page I can see that that is day 9 of 10 in some 'post your art' challenge. It's all stuff I haven't seen before because it's been a hot minute since I visited her, and I'm interested in these posts. She doesn't usually want her art online AT ALL and it's nice to see she is branching out in this way.

If I go to the main feed, it isn't there at all. I only know about it because I visited her page directly. When I call her, she will ask if I saw something my sister posted. I did not, because facebook doesn't think my sister is important to me either.

Then there's reshares. For the few people who facebook does think are important to me, it's 90% reshared memes and 10% the actual content I want to see. If I try to hide that content, my only options are to unfollow that person entirely, or to hide whatever meme page they shared from this time. Only problem is that every single post is from a different page, so that is not a workable solution.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by KorematsuFred »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #74
bra-ket wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's gonna require 200 engineers at SF rates. Better shoot for $0.5B if you want to be taken seriously.

I have some office space I am willing to lease to you, however I wont take any equity I need hard cash.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by plorkyeran »

StavrosK wrote: post #65
swiley wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? It's HN. You can't even have a thread without at least one comment complaining about bad website design.

Oh I don't mind people complaining that Medium sucks, because Medium does suck, I just didn't expect someone to use that to discount the argument the article is making.

The article appears to be one sentence long and doesn't make an argument in that sentence, so criticizing the platform for not actually displaying the article is basically the only thing I can say about it.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by mixmastamyk »

Yeah, it really does. It's so cramped I feel like I can't read it most of the time, and browser zoom doesn't help at all.

I still don't even understand what the "stories" are exactly? When I've clicked it was a complete waste of time. That showed up earlier though.

The notifications on the right are simply not readable due to cramp and wrapping over three-ish lines, like a table with columns way too narrow for the content.

However, I do appreciate the dark mode.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by skinnymuch »

bobske3 wrote: post #69
vehemenz wrote: post #46

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.

This. The sooner people start watching Social Dilemma or read Surveillance capitalism the better. The only way this gets better is by STOP using it.

No one in Social Dilemma stopped until they were multi millionaires if not billionaires.

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by agumonkey »

bra-ket wrote: post #49
bennettfeely wrote: post #27

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.

with ml based analytics

Re: The New Facebook Design Sucks

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Post by skinnymuch »

ugjka wrote: post #44
grbi wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand but, they announced that it would disappear in September. We are at the end of October. Considering the feedback, I'm quite happy to be still on the old version.

They are probably rethinking now after seeing the feedback

Yeah. Like they re-thought the wall or feed or messenger as a separate app. All of which got negative feedback.
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