Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
I hope a less evil alternative emerges shortly, because it's already starting to get ridiculous even just a couple days after being introduced.
I consider sites like HN quite different, as that is their sole purpose :)
Has anyone noticed the new Mahalo-esque stuff they're doing? All of your hobbies, movies, music, etc... that they're making part of this social graph is now linked together a lot better.
Example, one of my interests (for fun) is "underwater basket weaving" which now links to a page like this, http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Underwater-basket-weaving/1...
"Our goal is to make this Community Page the best collection of shared knowledge on this topic. If you have a passion for Underwater basket weaving, sign up and we'll let you know when we're ready for your help."
Pretty crazy.
|http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?*I'd like to see a discussion about (a) what it actually means to "like" something, (b) what demographics currently use the "like" buttons (c) are there any startup ideas to revolutionize the distribution of information etc.
But what good is a "like" button if there is no "dislike/hate" button?
That's how HN is if you're under the karma threshold.
* facebook.com/plugins*
It would also include location based features where users upload geotags of places they've never been, nor would want to go to.
Biggest annoyance is that it doesn't degrade very gracefully when FB has availability problems, you get a white square in the page in Firefox.
Easy to do, but they are probably busy doing other stuff.
Browsers are pretty good in progressive rendering of page content these days. So user should see the main page first and then it starts loading these additional resources. So no big deal IMHO. The button should not degrade user experience during page loading.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9727
At first it seems like overkill, because it blocks sites from accessing data from other sites, but you can enable certain sites (either globally or on a per-site basis) and it remembers those, so after a little playing around, sites you visit frequently look quite normal.
It's also very interesting seeing how people assemble sites these days...
It is nice to have a 'standard' rather than voting for multiple items. At the same time, how much is liking something really doing for ya?
I don't think it has the benefit of a community like HN, so Facebook doesn't have it all yet.
At the same time, I suspect people will still visit digg, reddit, etal to find new articles, and up vote them there.
However, I wouldn't be surprised to see sites like Digg get significantly less posts added.
I hope we don't see the same suspected decline here on HN, as my friends on FB aren't HN types.
Every story has a Like, a Buzz and a Retweet button.
If you want to bookmark something, bookmark it in the way you know how (in browser, Delicious, etc). If you want to tweet about something, go tweet about it in the client of your choice.
I'd actually use the "like" buttons if they learned what I liked/disliked, rather than just being there to show off an unnormalized and somewhat meaningless figure.
But someone could make a quick userscript to hide them :-)
Edit:
// ==UserScript==
// @name I-Dont-Like-The-New-Facebook-Like
// @namespace I-Dont-Like-The-New-Facebook-Like
// @description Hide all Facebook 'Like' buttons
// @include *
// ==/UserScript==
(function () {
var i = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe');
if(i) {
for(e in i) {
if(i[e].src.match(/http\:\/\/www.facebook.com\/widgets\/like.php/gi)) {
i[e].style.display = 'none';
i[e].style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
}
}
})();