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I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people (including myself) just need the feed. I personally preferred the clean approach because outside of Events, I never n

by colmvp 13y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people (including myself) just need the feed. I personally preferred the clean approach because outside of Events, I never need the left navigation. Now it obnoxiously takes up a segment of the page and the main content in the center feels tight especially with the bigger typography.

Geee 13y ago
On the contrary, I don't need the feed at all. I use just the messaging features. I never post on the feed and everything I share is in the private or group messages.
- gumby 13y ago
  If you don't need the feed you don't even need the web browser since the message system is bog standard jabber. I do my FB messaging through Messages on my Mac and the FB Messages app on my phone. Works great.
  - batiudrami 13y ago
    Bog standard Jabber except for the changes they make - group messaging, 'seen' notifications, in line attachments, 'stickers' are all proprietary stuff which a standard jabber client doesn't support, unfortunately. Their Facebook Messenger for Windows client was discontinued earlier this month unfortuntaely, so I'm back using Trillian and boy do I miss the group messaging feature.
    - klapinat0r 13y ago
      (genuine question, I don't use FB chat) How is group messaging different from MUC[1]? The naming group messaging sounds alike, but I don't know the internals of FBs feature. in line attachments is also possible[2] - I assume you mean sending files, embedding photos in messages and such? As for seen and stickers I don't know of a XMPP equivalent, but I am curious as to why MUC wasn't used instead of proprietary group messaging. [1]: XEP-0045, http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html [2]: html and/or XEP-0231, http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html
- dsernst 13y ago
  Recently I installed this "Kill the News Feed" Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjobfcedfgohjkaieocljfcppjbkglfd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo... Now I waste way less time. Maybe you'll like it :-)

by colmvp 13y ago

Geee 13y ago

On the contrary, I don't need the feed at all. I use just the messaging features. I never post on the feed and everything I share is in the private or group messages.

gumby 13y ago
If you don't need the feed you don't even need the web browser since the message system is bog standard jabber. I do my FB messaging through Messages on my Mac and the FB Messages app on my phone. Works great.
- batiudrami 13y ago
  Bog standard Jabber except for the changes they make - group messaging, 'seen' notifications, in line attachments, 'stickers' are all proprietary stuff which a standard jabber client doesn't support, unfortunately. Their Facebook Messenger for Windows client was discontinued earlier this month unfortuntaely, so I'm back using Trillian and boy do I miss the group messaging feature.
  - klapinat0r 13y ago
    (genuine question, I don't use FB chat) How is group messaging different from MUC[1]? The naming group messaging sounds alike, but I don't know the internals of FBs feature. in line attachments is also possible[2] - I assume you mean sending files, embedding photos in messages and such? As for seen and stickers I don't know of a XMPP equivalent, but I am curious as to why MUC wasn't used instead of proprietary group messaging. [1]: XEP-0045, http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html [2]: html and/or XEP-0231, http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html
dsernst 13y ago
Recently I installed this "Kill the News Feed" Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjobfcedfgohjkaieocljfcppjbkglfd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo... Now I waste way less time. Maybe you'll like it :-)