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where gone "edit settings for this app" in app dropdown in a canvas page?? how one supposed to bookmark an app?? dont ever say only through edit app page.

there should be "more" link on click of which "fb popup" should show all bookmarks instead of just 10.

Last edited by tichwhack (2008-09-10 03:13:43)

Yup, this is a very intense change.   And pretty useless from a user experience point of view.   Hopefully they roll it back immediately or it was just a mistake.

I added an app to my profile but it doesn't show up in my applications drop down?   That's pretty nuts.

Last edited by friendhugs (2008-09-10 03:41:28)

Alex_Grist wrote:

I'm not sure if the new nav was such a great idea.

The removal of Recently Used apps is well..... an annoyance and moving the Profile link too.

Also the "Profile" link it out of place.

I agree. I want my recently used apps back!

Facebook bring back that list! Not even bookmarking works correctly -  why do you only allow 10 apps in the drop down with no [more] link, and sorted in arbitrary order instead of most-recently-used order?

zerostar07 wrote:

Facebook bring back that list! Not even bookmarking works correctly -  why do you only allow 10 apps in the drop down with no [more] link, and sorted in arbitrary order instead of most-recently-used order?

This change was pretty crappy!  Bookmarks don't work, and now it's even more clicks for a user to find the app they want if it's not in the list.

It's so clunky it must be a bug.

Jonathan wrote:

I was trying to explain to members of my own development team the convoluted steps necessary to bookmark our application now, and even they had problems figuring it out -- end users aren't going to be figuring this out, and grandfathered apps are going to have a HUGE advantage, because all of their bookmarks are there by default (even though no user explicitly added a bookmark).

you 're kidding! this change is definately not here to stay, it MUST be a bug, or caused by mistargeted protons in the LHC. This is ridiculous, I now tell my users to store the app in their browser bookmarks instead, it's so much simpler. What's more ridiculous is that this has been going on all day (here in europe) and facebook hasn't even acknowledged the bug

My guess is that the "secret feature" that will start with the full rollout has sth. to do with bookmarks / display of apps on the page.
Either they put the bookmarks there where the bar "welcome to the new facebook" is now, at least in firefox it would look nice because it's exactly below the firefox bookmarks (just as icons or sth).
Or they will create an "app bar" next to the translations / chat / notifications bar where app bookmarks / recently used apps pop out.

So let's give them a chance for the full rollout . ]  I'm optimistic, they will make it easier to find the apps.

one more thing, (if facebook staff are reading this) :  On the edit apps page, it would be nice if clicking on the "Star" should toggle "bookmark-unbookmark" instead of "edit -> bookmark tick on", just like voting of the translations app.
So e.g everywhere where are grey stars the app is not bookmarked, and if they are bookmarked the star turns yellow for example.
Same for the "Add to Profile": Instead of the "edit" button,  next to every app on the app settings page should be a grey profile and info symbol if it is not added (instead of blank space), and a colorful one if it is added. Clicking on it would open the menu for that setting. It would look more like a matrix then.

Last edited by cbalcero (2008-09-10 08:32:50)

Thanks a lot for your feedback. cbalcero is right;  we're still in progress of rolling out some features that make these even easier and make apps more discoverable and available on Facebook as well as easier to bookmark.  We're sorry about the confusion -- we're in the midst of finalizing the feature and what you see here is definitely not final! Expect it to be out very very soon, and hope you'll be as excited as we are.

Thanks,

Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support

Facebook Platform Team wrote:

Thanks a lot for your feedback. cbalcero is right;  we're still in progress of rolling out some features that make these even easier and make apps more discoverable and available on Facebook as well as easier to bookmark.  We're sorry about the confusion -- we're in the midst of finalizing the feature and what you see here is definitely not final! Expect it to be out very very soon, and hope you'll be as excited as we are.

Thanks,

Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support

That's great, but how about rolling back the change until the feature is finalized so that all your users can still access the apps in the mean time? As is right now your users are confused and angry about not having access to their favorite applications. There isn't even a bookmark option. This is truly a blocker issue that needs to be rolled back - or we need a time frame as to when the feature will be 'finalized' and rolled out to fix this. Just saying 'oh this is not final don't worry about it' is not acceptable when somewhere around half of your users are on the new version right now.

Facebook Platform Team wrote:

Expect it to be out very very soon, and hope you'll be as excited as we are.

I'm not holding my breath on either count.

I'm pretty disappointed by this change.  The "recent applications" section was a very useful feature that definitely made up a bit for the migration away from add.

The new placement of the applications on the chat bar makes absolutely no sense.  The concept behind the Facebook navigation bar is to have a simple location to navigate all of Facebook.  Applications are a part of Facebook's content, but now they're stuffed on the chat bar, which is used to convey information that is not site content; it's a private user-to-user conversation.  Now, to navigate to applications, I must move my mouse cursor all the way to the other end of the screen.  So, not only is the new menu less useful, its placement is nonsensical.

The problem you're trying to address is that users can't figure out where their applications are.  Why couldn't you do this by adding icons to the top bar?  Why not have a grey blob in the navigation bar next to the applications link to show, say, three application icons?  Those icons sitting there would surely clue people in.  Why not add a temporary tool tip (like you just did for the new location of the applications menu, I might add) to clue people in?  There has to be a way to do it that would make sense.