This just means it’s time to go back to the drawing board for many apps to leverage what is coming with new iterations.

The mini-feed changes are one of the most interesting changes as rights are changing.

I have said it before and I will say it again. “for better or worse, the only constant on facebook is change”.

http://facerevi...hanges-detailed

M-

In addition to the integration points mentioned, apps can create tabs of their own for full-column content (just like how Photos has its own tab in the article picture). All these integration points are user-optional, of course.

I think the idea of this redesign is to architecturally cut the wind from the sails of a handful of apps. Facebook would prefer that platform apps be, frankly, useful, complete experiences deserving of full tabs, like Photos or Groups or Events are. Trivial apps (most poke or gift apps, e.g.) clutter profiles and dilute user attention. By relegating them to a non-main profile page, they’ll be less engaging to the people who choose to interact with them in the first place. Also, Facebook would like to exert dominance over the popular Wall replacements. SuperWall and FunWall are difficult to moderate, difficult to regulate, mostly annoying, and take engagement (and tracking and metrics!) away from Facebook’s Wall, which simply cannot be put in a better position in the current Profile (but it would be a universally bad move on Facebook’s part to shut those apps out).

I think people should be able to set a filters, which describes how they wish to view profiles.

You should be able to filter out applications, so that if a lot of my friends have a specific application, I can block that application, so that it doesn’t appear in my friends profile, when I look at their profile. There would also be a tab, to easily unfilter the profile temporarily.

There should also be a way to see which applications are “recently popular” with my friends. I’d want to know, which application was installed the most times over the last week, by my friends?

it’s been almost 2 hours since the messages worked well. I get timed out 4 out of 5 try!

@smbeebe

First, same people that hated the mini-feed are now complaining about their wall being integrated into their feed. (They’re the same people who now love the feed.) Except, it is a feed itself. It’s data accumulated over a period of time and displayed chronologically. Thus, it makes perfect sense to combine them. The feature that has always been missing but facebook hasn’t realized is that the FEED should be filterable. That is, it should be able to be filtered to display just the WALL posts or just RELATIONSHIPS. Anything that the feed is composed of should be able to be sorted to ONLY that type of data. Instead, we have this separate wall tab which is useless clutter.

Second, they have problems with their naming of tabs. There are two problems here. First, “Info” doesn’t describe anything very specifically. It should be “Profile” because it is, of course, a “Profile Redesign.” And the “Boxes” tab is tentative as they state, but why they called it that at all is beyond me. It describes how the content is laid out not what appears there. It’s like calling the profile tab “columns” because it appears in columns. It should be “Apps”. Plain and simple and it describes the CONTENT of the tab.

Third, this raises the question of personalization. Should the user be able to call whatever tab s/he wants? However, this has only one answer: no. Simply put, this is the beginning to a slippery slope to the user being able to customize the color, links, design, and ultimately you end up with a MySpace like portal of unreadability and putrid designs that make it what it is now. So, they should not allow naming.

However, naming is only one problem facing the tabs. The next is how many tabs can you have. Obviously, there has to be a limit or else way to siphon off excess tabs because otherwise it will devolve into something that contradicts their current goals with this redesign.

Further, the “Apps” could contain all applications. But then people wonder about applications they truly care about. Charity applications or something like this. Then people want them displayed prominently in a DIFFERENT tab. Chaos ensues.

So, they really need to stop pandering and go back to what they had originally. Keep the original tabbed interface, keep the wall and feed merged, add a filter for the feed, and put all applications on one tab.

The reason it’s taking so long is because there’s such a debate raging and because they keep pandering and taking more and more feedback. There comes a time when the feedback needs to be shut off.