Comments on: My impressions of Facebook’s news feed redesign & what it means

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:47:25 +0000

I completely agree. I HATE not seeing updates from the people on my friends list. I get the same 5 people, and the same 5 people see my stuff. it is awful :( why won’t they fix this Om??

By: Tammy Hill

Tammy Hill — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:09:47 +0000

I accepted the update and now I get too many newsfeeds telling me _______ is now friends with _______, and it clogs up my newsfeed. I can’t stop it. tried everything. turned off notifications and turned off comments & likes to many people. Any suggestions?

By: Cheryl Carlyle

Cheryl Carlyle — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:52:53 +0000

I hate it. I hate the dark grey side bar on left hand side, an eye sore and hurts my eyes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:57:10 +0000

I was one of the first in the waiting list (kept reloading the page), when I clicked “Join the Waiting List” only 27 people had liked the page, so I could only be max. 100th on the list or so. Several days later, no new look. What’s going on? And we still haven’t even got Graph Search, and that came out ages ago…

By: Hoan Do

Hoan Do — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:24:25 +0000

The Search bar on the top is actually quite worthless and comes in the way of what could be a pretty seamless experience. It is a case of when a hasty business decision gets layered on top of good design decisions — the end result is like a great pair of leather shoes with a plastic sole.

I don’t know what you mean? your words are so too academic =.=

By: Ken Keiter

Ken Keiter — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:24:34 +0000

Insiders I’ve spoken with at Facebook often decry the intelligence of the so-called “news feed robot” — apparently, it’s not actually all that intelligent, and doesn’t implement any machine learning. It simply filters posts by connection strength and post popularity. The result is surprisingly passable, and they’ve managed to avoid a great deal of analytical complexity.

Looking in from the outside, I do appreciate a good, clean redesign that gives priority to content (you see this a lot in the current “flat UI” trend). But for me, the biggest improvement would be in the robot itself.

By: dailytut

dailytut — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:06:29 +0000

waiting so eagerly to experience the all new facebook newsfeed. :) Wonderful write up and gigaom never disappoints to cover the latest tech happenings :P

Robin.

By: Alan Ralph

Alan Ralph — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:20:05 +0000

I’ve not received the new look UI here, although I did notice that the changes on the Music side are visible if you visit a page relating to an artist.

I think Facebook missed a trick when it introduced interest lists, by not coming up with a way to help users organise pages and subscriptions quickly and easily. That would have headed off a lot of the criticism around the decreased visibility of posts from those pages and subscriptions within the main news feed. They could also help themselves a lot by making it easier to filter the main news feed or interests lists on an ad-hoc or permanent basis, and manage the updates you receive from your friends – at the moment, whilst the controls are there, it’s not immediately obvious how you use them.

I’ve already had to turn off one new change that has shown up on my profile. The new notification sound is seriously distracting to me, particularly so when I’ve opened another web page to read and the Facebook page is in the background.

I really do hope that Facebook’s next round of updates are more that just beautification, and actually work on usability.

By: The Chiefe

The Chiefe — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:35:53 +0000

Om, can get comment on what Facebook’s growth in emerging markets leading to proliferation of violations there means to them? Specifically refering to hardcore pornography violations by users in those countries. It’s no joke, detailed documentation in source such as below indicates Facebook hasn’t gotten its act together & creating a PR nightmare for themselves.

http://facebook-infested-with-hardcore-porn.blogspot.com

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:50:01 +0000

@kevin

Nothing wrong with Dido but as you point out, that like didn’t really have anything to do with the music, proves my point ;)