On the New Facebook Interface

[serinde]

syringavulgaris: I have been New Facebook Interfaced.
syringavulgaris: Do not want.
elibalin: See? S'horrible.
syringavulgaris: How the sodding fuck do we change settings for our "new" "home page"?
elibalin: I have no idea. As far as I can tell, we don't get to.
elibalin: I'd like to make the whole right-hand column go away.
syringavulgaris: "Since News Feed is now a filtered stream showing real-time posts from your friends, the old news feed preferences page is gone. You can remove friends from the News Feed list (and therefore from your default stream) simply by clicking the "X" that appears when you hover over their story in your stream. You can always click on "See Hidden Friends" to see which of your friends and Pages have been removed from your News Feed filter. Simply click "Add To News Feed" to include your friend or Page in the filter."
elibalin: Not helpful.
elibalin: So, you can either have a wall of trivial spew, or you can shun people, but still have half a wall of trivial spew.
syringavulgaris: Yes.
elibalin: So this is Web2.0.
syringavulgaris: It might be Web2.5.
elibalin: Fuck you, Future.

Comments

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

Web2.5...where the future fucks you...

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Ironically, the wall of trivial spew has insufficient spew for my tastes. I'd gotten to like the raw "live feed" option. News feed is not live, nor does it show everything, and there seems to be no way to make it do either. Plus, friendfeed seems to be broken, and clicking "twitter" just shows all status updates...either broken code or deliberate irony.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's my other major issue: there is no good way to choose *which* trivial spew shows up. I want, for instance, "all status updates and links, and screw everything else". Cannot haz.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

You can also make “friend groups”, and have several partial walls of trivial spew. (But, say, all the cow-orkers in one, all the people from Usenet in another, and so on.) This feature was present before, but now all the controls are in different places. I daresay that it's even a little nicer to use than it was.

As for the removal of the category-priority stuff, which I assume is what the issue here is: I'm not sure I ever saw that actually have any effect.