The rumor is that the old FB design is gone, and gone for good. While
I'm not the biggest fan of what's here now, I think it has a few
advantages. The heading navigation is one for news items which is
certainly irritating, but recall the old design used level 2 headings
everywhere. This means you had to slog through all the news whether you
wanted to or not. Navigating to graphics with G and Shift-G in
Window-Eyes works well enough, as does the tab or page down key.
Changing your status or commenting to friends' postings is also more
convenient for the drive by user, E.G. me.
Change is annoying sometimes, but occasionally it improves the user
experience. I haven't used this new design long enough to make a
die-hard conviction one way or the other, but so far it doesn't seem to
be as Satanic as many people are making it out to be.
Regards,
Steve
Hayden Smith wrote:
Just so I can put my few cents worth in here:
. Though the new facebook may be trying, there are certain little
features that jaws users - it is this market that I target in
particular being a user myself - have ignored, though being slightly
more arduous than others. Firstly, the news feed from what I can see
has little graphics dotting a lot of the little articles which you
could navigate with G and Shift=G - although I think that whinging
about little things of pressing the arrow keys is quite immaterial.
. If you are finding the lack of headings a problem, establish a
permanant placemarkers set for specific points in the page to which
you can jump between.
. If such avenues become too difficult you can - as previously
mentioned - use things like M.facebook.com which without the nice
fancy things the established facebook has allow with simple rendering
your ease of use.
I'm not sitting here and advocating that the new facebook is bad or
good or the lack of vision of users I'm simply stating some methods
that you might use to get around a tricky situation. However, the
amount of users who dislike the new facebook hasn't been entirely
unnoticed because at least 1,500,000 has attracted the media's
attention here in Australia.
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i guess that's a valid point, but come on. How hard would it have
been for them to put in some heading navigation? Having to scroll
through all that excess garbage really detracts from my enjoyment
of the site.
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*Sent:* Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:17 AM
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At the risk of starting a blindy uprising, I'd venture to
guess that the reason why nothing has shown up in blindy lists
in the online universe, is because other than the headings
being taken out, (which is probably the only valid gripe that
people disliking the new fb have,) it really comes down to
something as simple as folks not liking a change and being
ripped out of their comfort zone.
They're not gonna change it back guys, so get over it.
Yes... The profile page is kinda nasty in spots, and
removing applications is sort of a pain in the almighty
asshole, but it's still totally doable.
Personally I like what they did with the news feed by making
it in a chronological order, and they needed to have it so you
could comment on statuses... That one was a long time in coming.
If you really feel the needfor something easier and faster,
you can check out m.facebook.com in Firefox, but (at least I
can't anyway) access the applications that way.
*Sheepishly retreats back into my corner*
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learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
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*From:* Derek Lane <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* talk2 <mailto:talk2@AndreLouis.COM>
*Sent:* Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:01 AM
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There are several I'm sure, but those who took the time
probably complained with the hundreds who have already
done so.
Thing is, I'm not for playing the blind card usually, but
if I could talk/write to someone withpower, explaining why
the old facebook was nice, rather than just saying how bad
the new one is, I may hopefully make an impression.
Like you, I must confess that I am surprised that one of
the hard core advocates, who would normally start a
petition about practically anything hasn't clamped on to
this and ran screaming quite loudly.
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*Sent:* Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:52 PM
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god, i was waiting for someone to ask that question.
ive been constantly googling, expecting an onslaught
of messages on blindy listservs expressing that same
sentiment, and have come up empty. i hate not being
able to press h to jump from news item to news item
and to have to wade through all this crap to find
anything remotely interesting. glad to hear someone is
as pissed off as I am.
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*From:* Derek Lane <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* talk2 <mailto:talk2@AndreLouis.COM>
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:46 PM
*Subject:* The Talk2 List new facebook is a pile
So, I'm going to ask the same question that many
have asked around the net; anyone manage to get
the old facebook back?
I've yet too, and I've spent more time on trying
to get said version back than editing church
things PDAudio stuff, and things I actually get
paid to do.
Oh well.
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