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OMG! Ponies!
03/25/09

In reply to Facebook Surrenders to Users' Redesign Revolt
The only proper response to the hubbub is "What are you going to do about it?"

Seriously. People made a petition and "signed" it - a process that involves about 10 seconds of clicking. If people don't like it, what are they going to do? Flee Facebook? Yeah right. For what? MySpace? Twitter? Yeah right.

Someone should send Zuckerberg a nice wheel of Camembert for that surrender-monkey to chow down on.
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Accidental Billionaire
03/25/09

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Facebook is not a plumber or a electrician. I don't need this utility. A new and cooler fad will be around 2 yrs from now.

This is why every website like this eventually dies down. The wealthy ones:

1.) Sell out

2.) Are nescessary market nexus (Amazon, eBay)

(Widgets market nexus)

Hasn't history tought these cocky tards anything?

Us humans believe that "Here and now" will last forever. Not true. Never true.
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Loki_Monster
03/25/09

In reply to Facebook Surrenders to Users' Redesign Revolt
And where's the content filter for bullshit quizzes? Yeah, yeah, that's the whole point of the new filters for application data that are coming in the next few weeks. Blah, blah, blah.

All I know, is before I didn't have to "filter" my content. I saw links. I saw videos. I saw uploaded or tagged photos. I saw who became friends with whom. I saw the result to the bullshit quizzes only if someone decided to publish that result. That's what I want back.

Also, next friend of mine that takes some quiz like "what kind of shoes are you" or "what pooh character are you" is getting defriended. This is on you Zuckerberg, because before I DID NOT SEE ALL THAT SHIT!

Hating it.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
03/25/09

@Loki_Monster: you should try the 'would you throw down in chuck e cheese' quiz
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Wrapitup
03/24/09

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What would happen if Google's design-by-user-stats VP Marissa Mayer were to handle Facebook's design?
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DeadliestSin
03/24/09

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How'd you get ahold of my cat and what are you doing it her!?!?!

My grief with the site is the same as everyone else, and yes, my work productivity has increased only sightly, because now instead of spending mass amounts of time on FB I now come on here and bitch about the changes.
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VoxPopuli
03/24/09

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So...still no way to see in your feed when people add friends? That's the best way for people to randomly find and be found by people they haven't seen in years.

That is, to me, is one of the best things about FB (and if you don't want to reacquaint yourself with someone, it's easy to ignore the friend request or block them, so no harm done.)
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Schm
03/24/09

@VoxPopuli: Seconded. That was like the best part.
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Charlotte Rae's Web
03/24/09

@VoxPopuli: Me three. I've found far more people I might know with seeing who my friends added than the 'Who you might know' section which pulls up ridiculous matches while ignoring obvious ones.
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Schm
03/25/09

@Charlotte Rae's Web: That thing is always so awkward. Ninety percent of the time, you aren't friends with them for a reason.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
03/25/09

@VoxPopuli: you could always try trolling your friends friends lists, as I do ;o)
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Eleiren Bowen
03/25/09

@VoxPopuli: Also apparently no way to tell when someone drops off your friends list. An ex of mine finally got a clue and removed me from his friends, but I have no idea when to celebrate the blessed event because there was no update! Nice, right?
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squinko
03/25/09

@Eleiren Bowen: I don't think Facebook has ever let people know when they've been de-friended. That's why they had such a problem with Burger King's "Whopper Sacrifice" app, since it told people that their friends dropped them for the burger.
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TableNine
03/25/09

@squinko: I miss that promotion-- nothing like telling a random acquaintance that their "friendship" isn't worth 1/10th of a burger to you.
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Clarence Rosario
03/24/09

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Um, guys? They don't yet know how to make money.

You think they actually know anything about usability?
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lobstr
03/24/09

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Never in my fifteen years of UI hustling have I ever seen such a horribly laid-out site, especially on one where people (including lots of oldes, lulz) have gotten accustomed to certain basic items where they should expect them. All of a sudden, basic tenets of the site (i.e., GROUPS, EVENTS) are not just shuffled onscreen, they're just plain missing.. as in, where the hell did they go? Upon searching forums that discuss this stuff, people have suggested going to this menu and hitting that tab and looking near the bottom.. so unnecessary.

A classic "if it ain't broke.." .. but unlike New Coke, I don't think this was a publicity stunt at all.. I'm sure Zuckerberg is scratching his head..
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CaptainFantastic
03/25/09

@lobstr: I just joined about a week ago, and it is laid out horribly. It's not intuitive. Links show up and disappear. Ugh.
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Trixie from Toronto
12/12/08

In reply to The Spiffy New Look of Gawker
Now that I've had a day with it I have totally changed my mind. I love the condensed version!! If you've been offline all day and just want a quick rundown of everything that's been posted, it's quick and fast.

Bravo!
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ChuffedLittleMuffin
12/12/08

In reply to The Spiffy New Look of Gawker
It's ugly. Right? Everyone can see that, surely. It's hideously ugly and boring. Right? No? Yes, I'm fairly certain.
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Weegee's bored
12/11/08

In reply to The Spiffy New Look of Gawker
Watch out for horizontal tombstoning when hed run one atop another without a blurb inbetween. The layout needs at least two lines of Roman (unbolded) text between heds.
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iplaudius
12/11/08

In reply to The Spiffy New Look of Gawker
I love the redesign. And I love that Gawker isn’t afraid to change the interface dramatically and regularly. When you jumped on the AJAX boat, you did it well, and then came the AJAX-enriched commenting features — really, that blew my mind.* I love it.**

People might hate Fark, but that doesn’t mean that topical labels and a summarized top-level are bad things in and of themselves.

Something to watch out for: sometimes the Javascript libraries and ads slow things down too much. Not sure why or when, just ... it happens. And then I have to go NoScript on yo’ ass, and you know I don’t want to deprive Gawker of it scripps, but sometimes I gots to.

Kudos on the CSS compliant and handicap-accessible dropdown menus with transparent shadows and delayed dropdown. One thing: move the mouse too fast, and the menu sticks. You need a Javascript function with a timeout to close the menu if the mouse isn’t there or another menu is open.

OK, got to go. Well done, gay IT overlords. xox iplaudius

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* Though, if you click twice quickly to show and hide, it fucks up, but that’s par for the course with this stuff, unless you want to assign the correct full height to an attribute on every comment div wrapper or whatever ... that would probably be a tedious thing to implement.

** Only complaint - can’t read comments on Blackberry browser. WAPI sucks, yeah, but still.
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CaptainFantastic
12/12/08

@iplaudius: Huh? :)
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lobstr
12/11/08

In reply to The Spiffy New Look of Gawker
is this a good thread where I can post a request? :D

Or perhaps this exists and I have just been using gawker wrong this whole time...

"It would be neat if..." under the "all activity" tab where it shows you all of yer posts, a little flag to denote which ones if any were responded to. I've often wondered how posters know when their posts from a week ago have been commented on unless they constantly just check on 'em ...

new styles look great btw
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lawyergay
12/11/08

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Oooh..."deployed"!
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ChuffedLittleMuffin
12/12/08

@lawyergay: It's Foucaultian! Or, if you prefer, "Foucauldian"! (!!!)
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llamalash★
12/11/08

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I don't hate the new look actually. And it IS speeding along on my computer. (or it could be the work they did to the connection yesterday) But, um, what the hell is the clock icon by each article? And why are some orange and some white?
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belltolls
12/11/08

@llamalash: I keep clicking on anything that turns orange (like a comment cloud or pageview symbol) to see if I win anything! Have I?
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llamalash★
12/11/08

@belltolls: Yes! You've just won at least a night's worth of confusion. Congratulations! I'm still using mine too. Not everyone can be as lucky as us.
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belltolls
12/11/08

@llamalash: Can't lie (fun as that may be) the orange is applied to the top entries for each possible category: most recent; most popular; most discussed. I prefer to think I can still win something though, so I will click away.
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