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What drugs is Facebook taking?

9 points by arturventura 15y ago

jarin 15y ago
Cue the requisite 3 days of grousing about News Feed changes before everyone gets used to it. Remember when Facebook first introduced the News Feed and there were News Feed protest groups with over a million users sperging out about it?
- arturventura 15y ago
  Its not a new feature that people don't like, the interface is completely diferent, and unsable!
  - jarin 15y ago
    That's exactly what people said about the news feed, and more recently the chat sidebar (when your browser window is wide enough). I found the chat sidebar annoying too, but after a few days it wasn't jarring at all. People just use Facebook so much that even small changes trigger massive waves of "OH GOD THIS IS COMPLETELY UNUSABLE" hysteria.
    - sebbi 15y ago
      It IS unusable regarding the newsticker. It annoys the hell out of me and gladly someone made a chrome extension to make this thing go away.
  - mevans 15y ago
    I wouldn't call it completely different, nor 'unsable'. It's a little different, and people don't like change.
  - arturventura 15y ago
    They removed "Most Recent". That's the only thing that I use, and most people use on facebook. I don't like the change, but if they are competing with google by making drastic changes to their interface, then they have a problem.
Alexx 15y ago
For some reason I've had the 'new style' facebook feeds and chat for a few weeks already. Usually when facebook releases updates and everyone has a little rant about it I just sit back and roll my eyes. These things usually have a long term advantage, and change is always a bit painful for users. However I've had a list of about 25 friends in alphabetical order, from A through to D, just stuck at the right side of my screen for about 6 weeks now. I have no idea why they are there. They're not online. They're not people I historically interact a lot with, I can't sort the list, or add favourites. I can't hide it, because that also hides the people online I might want to chat to. I honestly would love to know the reasoning behind this. Someone, somewhere sat through multiple planning sessions and laid out some kind of argument that this delivers value somewhere, either in some obscure way to facebook themselves or somehow to the end user. The design doesn't bother me, but the functionality does seem... arbitrary? What inherent interest could I possibly have in my first few alphabetically sorted friends?

9 points by arturventura 15y ago

jarin 15y ago

Cue the requisite 3 days of grousing about News Feed changes before everyone gets used to it. Remember when Facebook first introduced the News Feed and there were News Feed protest groups with over a million users sperging out about it?

arturventura 15y ago
Its not a new feature that people don't like, the interface is completely diferent, and unsable!
- jarin 15y ago
  That's exactly what people said about the news feed, and more recently the chat sidebar (when your browser window is wide enough). I found the chat sidebar annoying too, but after a few days it wasn't jarring at all. People just use Facebook so much that even small changes trigger massive waves of "OH GOD THIS IS COMPLETELY UNUSABLE" hysteria.
  - sebbi 15y ago
    It IS unusable regarding the newsticker. It annoys the hell out of me and gladly someone made a chrome extension to make this thing go away.
- mevans 15y ago
  I wouldn't call it completely different, nor 'unsable'. It's a little different, and people don't like change.
- arturventura 15y ago
  They removed "Most Recent". That's the only thing that I use, and most people use on facebook. I don't like the change, but if they are competing with google by making drastic changes to their interface, then they have a problem.

Alexx 15y ago

For some reason I've had the 'new style' facebook feeds and chat for a few weeks already. Usually when facebook releases updates and everyone has a little rant about it I just sit back and roll my eyes. These things usually have a long term advantage, and change is always a bit painful for users. However I've had a list of about 25 friends in alphabetical order, from A through to D, just stuck at the right side of my screen for about 6 weeks now. I have no idea why they are there. They're not online. They're not people I historically interact a lot with, I can't sort the list, or add favourites. I can't hide it, because that also hides the people online I might want to chat to. I honestly would love to know the reasoning behind this. Someone, somewhere sat through multiple planning sessions and laid out some kind of argument that this delivers value somewhere, either in some obscure way to facebook themselves or somehow to the end user. The design doesn't bother me, but the functionality does seem... arbitrary? What inherent interest could I possibly have in my first few alphabetically sorted friends?