Facebook Mulling Redesign... Again
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Facebook, Redesign, New, Old, twitter | Themes: The Internet
The last week has been a rough ride for Facebook users. Almost everyone hates the redesigned site the social network rolled out. There’s no shortage of groups and sites dedicated to how annoyed everyone is that Facebook chopped and changed the homepage and made certain things (like upcoming events) harder to find.
You guys aired your own grievances here and I’m sure a lot of you even took part in the poll that’s currently doing the rounds on Facebook. Until now Facebook seemed to be keeping one eye on things to see if users would relax a little once they got used to the changes. Sometimes people react badly to change because you’ve taken away what they know, which was likely the site’s thinking.
In a blog post today, Facebook finally addressed the elephant in the room. While the company didn’t quite come out and say, “We get that you hate it, and we’re changing it back,” Chris Cox, Facebook's Director of Product, did say that the company was keeping an open mind and looking at the biggest issues that people had with the new design.
“We know that no amount of testing is as valuable as what you have to say. For this reason, we will always look to you, our users, to tell us what is working and what isn't so we can continually make improvements,” Cox explained. “Here are the top four things we've been hearing from all of you about the changes, and the areas where we're focusing on improvements immediately and over the next several weeks.”
-Add more control and relevance in the stream
-See more Highlights
-Find things more easily
-Old vs. New
We’re not really sure how well that last one is going to go. Bar just changing some stuff back to the way it was, it’ll be difficult to sedate the people who genuinely miss the old Facebook.
As for us? We’re on the fence. Some people in office hate it and some (okay, me) sort of like it. At the end of the day, Facebook is Facebook and no one is going to leave because they didn’t notice that kid they knew in first grade wanted to be their friend until they got the friend request email.
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look at myspace... the design suck.. but it still works...
LOL, the last change actually got my wife to send feeback. She has never had that much ambition after a change before.
Omg, people need to chill the hell out. If they would stop whining about the interface and actually try to get used to it, they would see how its much better than the old one. Facebook is all about streaming information about your friends, and the new interface improves over the old one by keeping the classic 3 column layout. They just have to find out what content is in which column, which really isn't that hard to figure out. It's customizable and intuitive. I think the 20 or groups on facebook complaining about the new UI is an adequate example of how net users like to critique everything.
yes because having 50 updates in 60 minutes about what car my freind's are is so much nicer then the old facebook layout, i totally agreee with you SlicerX
Facebook needs to just make the front page a modular design, so that people can drag/drop whatever pieces they want in there in whatever order and placement they feel comfortable with. People could then share layouts if they wished. That way, the developers could go take that long sabbatical we'd all like them to.
I never got the hang of facebook...
Nowadays I think it's way more accessible then the first day I started using it (now a good 3 years ago).
I only use it for the basical status updates and commenting on other people's pages.
I stay away from invitations or groups. They often ask for access to all my contacts, so I guess I'm not using more than 15% of what the site has to offer.
I joined...
Added everyone I ever met in about a week.
Posted a couple pics.
Logged out forever...
The only people who care about the changes are people who are addicted to facebook and of course these are the people that are going to cause the most ruckus. These are also the people who no matter what will keep coming back to get their fix. Sucks to be them. I actually like the changes.
Hey, I use Facebook on a once in a while basis. But I still hate the changes to the guts. Trying to copy a competitor instead of outgunning them is not innovation.
I wish Tom's Hardware could REMEMBER which language I SPEAK!!!!!! I'm so sick of hitting English EVERY time I visit your website. It is extremely annoying. What ever happend to just clicking on a little flag at the top that corresponds to your nationality and making the default page English? Isn't English the standard anyways? Why be so politically correct and have the idiotic homepage bombard me with that stupid language selection box. Please get rid of that trash. Thanks....
@bone squat: I hear you, man. I'm based in Dublin and I have to pick my language a thousand times a day.
the old facebook allows more customization though requires few more clicks to get somewhere, much like an OS.
bad thing is with the new facebook, we can't control the stream of updates coming from friends. the only option is to block friend's update completely. also, i don't like the rightmost column, pretty irrelevant.
it seems to me that facebook wanted applications to be seen more often which is a drawback to those that has a lot of very active facebooking friends.
The last design sucked too. I don't use Facebook much though, so I don't care.
I wish Tom's Hardware could REMEMBER which language I SPEAK!!!!!! I'm so sick of hitting English EVERY time I visit your website. It is extremely annoying. What ever happend to just clicking on a little flag at the top that corresponds to your nationality and making the default page English? Isn't English the standard anyways? Why be so politically correct and have the idiotic homepage bombard me with that stupid language selection box. Please get rid of that trash. Thanks....
ditto
However, I have noticed that after clicking the English button, the new address is www.tomshardware.com/us, save that as your bookmark and it will save you the trouble. Again however, that isn't something we should have to have a workaround for
FaceBook would be a thousand times better if it did away with the useless applications. There are some obviously very bored people out there who continuously waste time with rubbish like 'what dog am I?'. Also, a separation of friends and family would be good as I would rather keep the two separate.