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Congratulations on making the worst thing on facebook EVER!

Seriously guys, that new look completely S*CKS! (I have no better way to describe it)

aritude wrote:

Congratulations on making the worst thing on facebook EVER!

Seriously guys, that new look completely S*CKS! (I have no better way to describe it)

to be fair, via their Facebook Profiles Preview page, Facebook appear to have iterated on the design with regular feedback to/from ordinary users throughout the whole process. this is something i've never seen a major website do before, at least not so openly.

this is admirable, even if the final result is not to everyone's taste (including mine, by the way!)

aritude wrote:

Congratulations on making the worst thing on facebook EVER!

Seriously guys, that new look completely S*CKS! (I have no better way to describe it)

If you are going to criticize it, at least give some arguments! you can't just say it sucks.
That's the whole point of the sandbox and this post too: constructive feedback, not just kiddish comments.

Its just not facebook. Remember how people reteacted even when the "Facebook Guy" was removed from the top right logo? The thing is, I don't think anybody would feel comfortable with this, here are a few reasons:

1.) Currently facebook layout is shrunk into a part of screen that is centred. Suddenly, you widened everything. Thats an ergonomical disaster.

2.) The mini-feed looks too huge.

3.) Make boundaries.

4.) The side-nav way to applications was the most comfortable thing on this website. Which is ruined.

5.) The info page should be default on profile with a wall post text box at the top. Wall, should be on the second tab with the mini-feed. This will create a super fast way to post on someone's wall.

6.) Why is the top bar light blue? Fbook blue would have made me feel at home.

7.) Basic Info should show up where the networks are shown. Also, the pages we are fan of should be there below friend list.

8.) With the current layout without borders. The advertisements will look like those on myspace, ie, spammy kinda stuff. This will further lower CPMs and be painful to the value of this platform.

9.) Again, borders are important. You received a positive feedback on the screenshots you posted a few days back but now everyone says its not good in flesh. One reason for that is, YOU HAD BORDERS and it still made facebook shrunk to the centre. Its painful to eyes because it lacks borders. For widescreen users, its mess!

Change things for better, don't create a new social network!

In a nutshell - Bring Side-nav back, make borders and tab the profile. Everyone should then feel comfy with the whole idea.

You can click on it to reduce it, but it seems you have to reduce each story one at a time.  That and you have to refresh after reducing it because it crashes the rest of the dialogs.

ok, firstly, I have found two bugs with that profile thing: In the feed story of a note, the contents of the note is shown as html instead of text. And the boxes that I have hidden are back on the "boxes" page.

Secondly, I find the new layout repulsive. Someone should really take a design class before making that layout. It's too white for it's own good. I'd like to keep it the same colors as before. And also, I liked the left navigation thing and now it's in a tab... And the tabs, by the way, are really really slow. Thirdly, I really don't like how the feed and the wall is mixed together and there's no mini-feed to just get a glimpse of the whole thing. Fourthly, popular applications like Extended Info will not work anymore.

Last edited by hayson1991 (2008-05-25 05:59:52)

hayson1991 wrote:

And the tabs, by the way, are really really slow.

I've got to disagree. Loading the tabs the first time around is quick, very quick, much quicker than a full page load ever was. And switching to previously loaded tabs is even quicker (although there is a noticeable delay, but it's still quick). (I'll stop saying 'quick' now.)

luke wrote:

Yeah, tab loading is pretty quick.  I hate the way the screen jumps around so much when switching to the later tabs though.

This is due to the profile pic becoming smaller, and the left hand column going - and it looks really naff as the screen jumps around.  This is especially so when switching for the first time, and the spinner shows something loading in one space, but more of the page than just that changes.  There needs to be more consistency between the tabs, or a smoother way of doing the transition.

Maybe the tabs should be moved up above the profile pic, so that everything that changes when switching tabs is below the tabs, and the spinner can be shown over the whole space (not the size of the whole space, but everything else blanked out).

Agreed. At least the way Firefox is rendering it, when you switch from Photos or Boxes to the first 3 tabs, the left column kind of "pops up" from the bottom, which actually looks kind of cool. But it's still a bit pants.

I'm working on a Greasemonkey JS to try out putting borders and dividers between things. It looks quite nice.

Last edited by DRankin (2008-05-23 14:57:32)

Just tried the scripts with GreaseKit in Safari.  Sadly the styling doesn't work in Safari, and things get chopped off along the left hand side.  It does though give the impression that borders and a fixed width menu would help.

The main thing I dislike about the new look profile is the fact that to write on someones wall you have to go to the FEED section, it would make more sense to put it under the wall section, after all if you want to write on someones wall then it makes sense to go to their wall to do it.
The tabs are not a bad idea, they separate everything up for easy navigation, but I do prefer having the applications listed down the left hand side as when i log in I can go straight to the application I want to use that way and it is a little quicker than having to go click on a tab, wait for the applications to load up, and then clicking through on them.
Also the whole thing just looks very plain and boring, and very white, it needs something else, more colour or something, to make it less drab to look at.

Hi All,

The tab wow innovative??!!! where are you living people is this a user page or website for every user?

you are shooting your leg, get rid of that tabs, hidden information is a disaster for your trafic

how many people you think they will click on every tab to see all "user website" where is social here?
one page only!! the apps will loose users and develope less for you

hire imaginative dev people use load on demand ajax, and break your head to keep everything in one page

that's the chalenge for your next UI

one thing I can say it's true good for Adds, bad for all the concept of facebook

tabs are old fashion, be creative!!!!

cyMall wrote:

Tabs old fashioned?  Are you from the future?  Last I checked tabs were still a fairly new concept which many fail to execute properly.

My Friend I meant for a user page, not for companies yes very functionnal, but less imaginative and appealing to a social user

think about it when you see a person live for the first time does he have tabs on him
(a person is mix of so many so things, yours eyes catch what attract you in him, you don't have to search for hidden info)
, a company yes...

and yes Im from the future:)