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- vrikis, on 03/15/2009, -10/+681Facebook is trying to become more like twitter.
- y0urcl0ne, on 03/15/2009, -19/+553This happened last time it changed. People hated it for the first month, then all the GET OLD FACEBOOK BACK groups got old really fast. Same thing will happen this time. People will complain, but in the end, it's still Facebook.
- tyler42025, on 03/15/2009, -20/+315its amazing how little effort people are willing to give to learn something new
- sockpuppets, on 03/15/2009, -3/+279It's also discriminatory against people that don't have faces.
- bstockwell, on 03/15/2009, -15/+218I didn't whine last time, but this one is seriously way too busy.
- sockpuppets, on 03/15/2009, -8/+193Dear Shayben,
I like your name. I had a goat named Shayben once. It had a beard like I did in the perfect storm. Are you a goat?
Say hi to your mother for me.
Signed,
Mark Wahlberg - MiracleBlue, on 03/15/2009, -8/+171It's all round and shiny and replacing meaningful words like "Your friend wrote on the wall of your other friend" with pretty little arrows that mean absolutely nothing! :D
I loved the last re-design, but I think I'll do something different and be a whiner this time. - garagepunk, on 08/05/2009, -14/+165i thought the last one was an improvement on the one before that, but THIS one now bites *****.
- socomoddjob, on 03/15/2009, -10/+160lol at those here bragging at how 'they only go on facebook like once or twice a week'...like their trying to prove their coolness to people on the interweb.
fail. - jestho, on 03/15/2009, -36/+184I like it. I'm sick of people always have to whine when Facebook is evolving. It's because of conservative fools like them we haven't invented the hyper drive yet!
- belzner, on 03/15/2009, -53/+177I hate the new design, but then again, I'm not too fond of Facebook in the first place.
- P-Frank, on 03/15/2009, -4/+119Yeah this re-design is a huge problem and I'm one of the few (it seems) who enjoyed the last re-design. Friend requests aren't showing up in notifications, areas of the news feed are out of order due to the weird daily summaries. The rounded aesthetic doesn't match the rest of the site. Also I hate how my Facebook pages look like regular user profiles now. Very "MySpace" of them.
- jdmulloy, on 03/15/2009, -73/+183Let the whining from the lusers commence.
- makario, on 09/03/2009, -7/+117Says the guy who uses "lusers" to sound cool.
- shayben, on 03/15/2009, -54/+150Dear Facebook,
Please find a business model already in stead of harassing your user base with constant meaningless interface changes.
Signed,
Shayben - kiiwii, on 03/15/2009, -4/+93People with no face have no place on FACEbook.
- alpha88, on 03/15/2009, -2/+81They're just trying to compete with twitter. If I wanted to use twitter, I'd go to twitter.
Perhaps, instead of endless design changes that your users respond badly towards, you could fix the countless bugs with photo albums, browsing through photos, photo uploads, tabs, etc. - Rapter09, on 03/15/2009, -4/+78Facebook needs to quickly internally test some designs, and then roll it out and stick with it. The user-confusion it creates is really going to drive people away from the site at a very fickle time in social networking history. People will be very easy to jump ship as soon as something comes along, especially with Facebook changing its layout every two months.
I remember when I had my own site that I ran jointly with some folks I would change the layout every week - I treated it like a design guinea pig, testing out new things I was learning, etc. and it was informal so the changes were of little consequence - but it sure annoyed the user base occasionally.
It looks terribly unprofessional on Facebook's part, especially when each consecutive layout gets more "Web 2.0" and "busy."; for example on my main feed I can see like half a dozen little pictures of myself.
Nobody needs to see that. - MrsButtersworth, on 03/15/2009, -1/+75But you like it enough to hate the new design.
- ForumDriv, on 03/15/2009, -21/+92Waaaaaaa. Waaaaaa. How's that?
- McReynolds, on 03/15/2009, -3/+70I miss the times when we used to bitch about the digg comments design.
- HurricaneDC, on 03/15/2009, -1/+59Dear Shayben,
Our business model is simple: We sell info about you to advertisers.
Love,
Marc Zomberg - Cl1mh4224rd, on 03/15/2009, -1/+58> "This happened last time it changed. People hated it for the first month, then all the GET OLD FACEBOOK BACK groups got old really fast. Same thing will happen this time."
I actually didn't mind the previous redesign, but the more I look at this one, the more I think it's just... not good; a step in the wrong direction. Granted, I'm not going to go start or join any of those bitchfest groups, and I will probably stop caring eventually (note: not the same as "get used to"), but I really do think the developers made a pretty bad choice here. I can't even see *why* this change was made. - BenRT, on 03/15/2009, -6/+58I've never been against Facebook redesigns, I've always liked them, my only small gripe with this is the 13px font size. I just wish I could reduce everything on the homepage back down to 11px. I'm not blind.
- sockpuppets, on 03/15/2009, -1/+52I'm waiting for the pownce.com domain to expire so I can turn it into a social networking site for cats.
- jestho, on 03/15/2009, -2/+52I'm not talking politics.
con⋅serv⋅a⋅tive [kuhn-sur-vuh-tiv]
–adjective
disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. - WinkyMcGee, on 03/15/2009, -1/+45It just strikes me as too busy and cluttered. It's as if they got worried about Twitter and decided the best way to react was to wedge Facebook into the Twitter model.
- bdogm, on 03/15/2009, -1/+43But twitter is discriminatory against people that don't have twits.
- TaterSalad77, on 03/15/2009, -0/+40I just hate it because a picture of my ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend won't leave my 'highlights' section.
- Steffmannen, on 03/15/2009, -2/+41or books
- OnBetamax, on 03/15/2009, -0/+34must say, i'm kinda disappointed as that real-time streaming that i was most looking forward to doesnt even work on mine. i have to refresh the page.
- Codeworks, on 03/15/2009, -20/+54It'd be nice if they gave you the OPTION to use the old one, which I'd gotten used to and liked. By the time I finally like this new layout, they'll probably replace it again.
- piggy, on 03/15/2009, -1/+34The word "conservative" is not just a political term. It can mean resistant to change or without excess. Don't be so knee-jerky (not a real word, but it should be.)
- mauso, on 03/15/2009, -3/+36I don't give a ***** what Facebook looks like.
Just stop changing it. - chingy1788, on 03/15/2009, -5/+38hence the non-uprisal of linux...
- chiropam, on 03/15/2009, -15/+47Let's just get over it, like the last time it changed. There are a lot more important things to give energy to.
- swimtwobirds, on 03/15/2009, -4/+35no you're wrong. this is badly designed, because it doesn't know what it wants to be. Its s**t design - cluttered, hard to prioritise where to look, the rounded corners are s**t. the highlights are s**t, superfluous and, i think, mostly there so the can shoehorn a sponsor right in at the top right. It'll be interesting to see if anything happens. the stop this user groups arent the point. user activity is. they've got to stop going mengele trying to get us to use it differently. I for one know I'll be using it less. It just not a comfortable place to be. it just isn't. its not nice to flick in and out of. they're f**king twitter obsessed apparently.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 03/15/2009, -2/+33Oh, and to add to my above comment: When someone posts a message to your Wall, it now looks a status message rather than an actual message.
"John Doe what's up dude?"
The person who thought that was a good idea just needs to be slapped. Hard. - garagepunk, on 08/05/2009, -6/+35cool internet idiots hate facebook
- yuanzhoulu, on 03/15/2009, -3/+31I really hate the new design because
1. The option to change the "size" of your news feed items is gone. When posting photos you used to be able to select from a drop down menu of no thumbnails/small thumbnails/large thumbnails, when you put a status message you used to have the drop-down option to make the text bigger, etc.
2. things are no longer in chronological order. i post something on someone else's picture and (1) it shows up somewhere down my news-feed, not at the top, and (2) it doesn't preview what i posted anymore!
i really liked the old old facebook with the wall separate from the news-feed, actually. for one thing it meant the stuff you posted most recently was always highlighted, whereas now i post these great photos i want to show off and it's freaking drowned in wall posts in 2 days -- before it'd stay highlighted at the top of my profile and wall posts would be a separate section. - SlyT862, on 03/15/2009, -11/+391,000,000 Strong Against the new Facebook! Bring the Old Facebook Back!
...really people? Our generation depresses me.
This is our Vietnam. - Dundasbro, on 03/15/2009, -12/+40You'll get over it.
- Eorster, on 03/15/2009, -2/+30Kinda reminds me of godaddy. I just can't get anywhere fast.
- d686, on 03/15/2009, -0/+25agreed... wouldn't ever join one of those retardo groups, but i really dug the previous design over the old-old design. this one just feels like a rushed panic response to twitter exploding.
- imacmike, on 03/15/2009, -2/+27Perhaps if conservative politicians had a better grasp on the meaning of the word conservative, they wouldn't find themselves where they are today.
- leif77, on 03/15/2009, -1/+26We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is the spiritual war... our great depression... is our lives.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 03/15/2009, -2/+27> "I didn't whine last time, but this one is seriously way too busy."
I agree completely. When my Home page switched over, I thought, "Oooo..." But the more I looked at it, the less I liked it. It's just cluttered beyond belief. The "People You May Know" block is below the fold (at a resolution 1920x1200!). Half of the "Highlights" show up in your News Feed anyway. Your friend's profile picture next to their News Feed item isn't a bad idea, but it's completely worthless when they're the type of Facebook user that changes their profile picture twice a day.
The only good thing about the new Home page is that the crap on the News Feed is actually in chronological order now. (With the previous version, I'd see week-old ***** popping back up to the top of the page. I'd see "so-and-so changed their profile picture" two or three times for the same change. Or I'd notice that they changed their picture and it would be a couple days before Facebook decides to throw it up on to my News Feed.)
And what's with the multiple "Recent Activity" sections on the Wall tab? Please, Facebook. The sectioning of the previous Wall (by date, with each item on that date tagged with the exact time or relative time) was *better*.
Ugh... - PrettyGreen, on 03/15/2009, -1/+25Except it has advertisements that watch you and a bunch of other useless stuff.
- cgrado, on 03/15/2009, -0/+23Same here. Last re-design made it easier to use, with stuff just rearranged. This time, you can't get to your own information without searching through your own profile first. I don't give a ***** about what other people are doing, I want to access my own groups, events, etc.
- ElBeh, on 03/15/2009, -0/+23huh, the last redesign was in August, not "over a year ago".
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