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Facebook: Simplifying the Stream

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34 pointsivankirigin16 comments

It's great we don't have to use the templates anymore, but the frequency of the API changes to something as basic as posting to the stream is really getting annoying.

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." - Mark Zuckerberg

This is a really great quote. There is a lot of truth in it and the effect of a company build on the principle is breathtaking. Facebook moves at lightning speed considering their size. It seems that they somehow found a way that let's them add engineers and scale their development speed linearly.

For something like this I would prefer if they took a bit more time to flesh out options, as could find a button to remove things like friends adding other people as friends from the live feed.

Also this should come with a box up the top with specific help pages written up to explain it all, if people who develop and use web apps every day find it different and confusing, imagine the average facebook user.

I like the ranked feed and I like to have an option to see it unranked (as live feed). I wonder if FB has an option to set the default to either rank/unranked. In the past many of my friends have these annoying applications that fortunately are not showed in the ranked news (may be because the algorithm learnt that I did not like them as I use to hide them).

I am really happy about the return to the ranked and filtered feed; less stuff to read. But then, they went and added an unread count next to the View Live Feed link! Aaaggghh! I just threw out dozens of RSS feeds because I have OCD and must drive unread counts down to zero. This will torment me.

Again, it's confusing and unpredicted.

wait...so now there's a popularity contest within my own friend network?

Ever since these recent updates started, I've been running into what seem to be caching issues.. I'll see old content on the "live feed", and it doesn't update until I refresh the page

Glad to see the popular stuff back in the stream. The way the highlights used to be presented on the right side was visually akward.

I HATE how they now obnoxiously suggest who I should write to.

Broken for me (showing newsfeed as of 3 days ago).

are you using it over https? There seems to be a problem with that. I switched back to plain http and it's working OK there.

So after updating my status and refreshing a half-dozen times (including resetting my internet connection, clearing my cache, and switching browsers) now I understand why my status doesn't appear in the same place anymore.

I understand that right now I'm a tired and distracted reader (30 hours of flying today and in the airport lounge) but I can't help think that other folks are going to be frustrated by this, even if it's an improvement.

Sites need to be very, very careful about changing stuff that works. This looks like a great improvement, but it you don't get something for nothing -- there is a cost of change.

This is happy and annoying. Happy because it simplifies the API. Annoying because I have to go back and rearchitect a big part of our site to support this. I just finished a week long project last month ago supporting this crap.

New Facebook is flying, I think this is the Python (Tornado)!.

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