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Compare this to 'Paper', Facebook's other iOS app which has 4 stars: https://www.facebook.com/paper https://www.facebook.com/paper https://itunes.apple.com/us
by Osmium 12y ago
Compare this to 'Paper', Facebook's other iOS app which has 4 stars:
https://www.facebook.com/paper https://www.facebook.com/paper
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-stories-from-facebook/id794163692?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-stories-from-facebook/...
Not only is it a great app, but it's also given back to the iOS community in the form of several great open source projects:
https://facebook.github.io/origami/ https://facebook.github.io/origami/
https://github.com/facebook/pop https://github.com/facebook/pop
http://asyncdisplaykit.org http://asyncdisplaykit.org
I find it fascinating that Facebook has two independent iOS efforts, and that while one is clearly better than the other, they seem content to pursue both apps. (Notably, Paper is still not available outside the US–I use Papers personally and can't imagine going back to the default app which just feels a bit lifeless in comparison, crashes/bugginess aside.)
- jfernandez 12y agoDoesn't the 4 stars also speak to the focus Paper has versus the 'catchall' UX of Facebook's primary app?
- smackfu 12y agoI can't stand Paper, and would have rated it poorly, but instead I just deleted it and use the normal app.
- dilap 12y agoPaper is interesting, ambitious, and certainly seems crafted with more love than the normal Facebook app, but I'm not sure you can say it's better. I tried it out for a while but ultimately found it was getting in the way of my basic FB needs. I'm a pretty geeky user; when I've tried to get more mainstream people to use Paper, they just get realllly confused and go running back to normal FB. These days, I just use the FB web page, and messenger. (I love that they split messenger into its own app. I wish they'd do something similar for desktop.)