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Seems they broke the fridge!

by u48998 16y ago

pavs 16y ago
Why is this person being downvoted? Maybe he is being sarcastic, but the site is indeed down at the time of this writing. Just because its a YC funded startup doesn't mean you can't point out its flaws. Come on guys. Edit: To clarify, he was -3 when I wrote that comment.
metamemetics 16y ago
Yeah I would definitely try this out if it was working. Facebook started to deteriorate when they made it even harder to group friends. Before it was really simple to assign someone to a certain friend-group at the same time you accept their friend request, this functionality appears to have been removed. Facebook would be vastly better if the interface was simply more group oriented. If grouping friends as you add them was front and center. A group list, where each friend-group element contains links to functionality such as: what you share with this group, news feed\number of new posts of this group, number online to chat in this group. Would be vastly better than having a list of groups for newsfeed, list of groups tucked away under privacy settings, list of groups tucked away in chat box. Friend Groups are parents of features rather than Features being parents of friend groups. It just plain psychologically works better. I think facebook is a genuinely useful site compromised by a shit interface. The facebook interface is like urban sprawl: an uncontrolled expansion that ocassionally gets band-aids rather than a centralized plan based on User Experience.
- austinchang 16y ago
  Yes! we are up and running at www.frid.ge this is one of the reasons why we build the Fridge. It is hard to filter and organize your friends into lists, keep track of the privacy settings for those lists and then hope that the people you are friends with have done the same thing on Facebook. People are either not posting real content anymore, not using their real name or are just boring on Facebook The Fridge interface organized not by friend requests but by groups. Each group is completely private from any other group with it's own news feed where everyone can contribute whether it is for a personal and private conversation, common interests of a specific group, or temporary networks that come together for events, parties, or any social gathering. People are invited to groups and people follow groups. If you get bored of a group you can leave. If the event or activity is over you can start another group around another event or activity based new or on going relationships.

Seems they broke the fridge!

by u48998 16y ago

Seems they broke the fridge!

pavs 16y ago

Why is this person being downvoted? Maybe he is being sarcastic, but the site is indeed down at the time of this writing. Just because its a YC funded startup doesn't mean you can't point out its flaws. Come on guys. Edit: To clarify, he was -3 when I wrote that comment.

metamemetics 16y ago

Yeah I would definitely try this out if it was working. Facebook started to deteriorate when they made it even harder to group friends. Before it was really simple to assign someone to a certain friend-group at the same time you accept their friend request, this functionality appears to have been removed. Facebook would be vastly better if the interface was simply more group oriented. If grouping friends as you add them was front and center. A group list, where each friend-group element contains links to functionality such as: what you share with this group, news feed\number of new posts of this group, number online to chat in this group. Would be vastly better than having a list of groups for newsfeed, list of groups tucked away under privacy settings, list of groups tucked away in chat box. Friend Groups are parents of features rather than Features being parents of friend groups. It just plain psychologically works better. I think facebook is a genuinely useful site compromised by a shit interface. The facebook interface is like urban sprawl: an uncontrolled expansion that ocassionally gets band-aids rather than a centralized plan based on User Experience.

austinchang 16y ago
Yes! we are up and running at www.frid.ge this is one of the reasons why we build the Fridge. It is hard to filter and organize your friends into lists, keep track of the privacy settings for those lists and then hope that the people you are friends with have done the same thing on Facebook. People are either not posting real content anymore, not using their real name or are just boring on Facebook The Fridge interface organized not by friend requests but by groups. Each group is completely private from any other group with it's own news feed where everyone can contribute whether it is for a personal and private conversation, common interests of a specific group, or temporary networks that come together for events, parties, or any social gathering. People are invited to groups and people follow groups. If you get bored of a group you can leave. If the event or activity is over you can start another group around another event or activity based new or on going relationships.