Facebook is redesigning its core app

Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by YeahSureWhyNot on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @04:05PM (#19791407)

I quit FB more than a year ago but stared going in my profile again because I had to create a page for my app and I am shocked how slow and cluttered fb desktop site has become. its alarmingly bad, like terrible and yet I read on the news that their advertising revenue has increased. did people start using fb more? who clicks on these ads? who buys stuff on fb.

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by justapassenger on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @06:59PM (#19792863)

FB revenue is more than 90% from mobile. Only nerds use desktop nowadays.

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by perl4ever on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @08:03PM (#19793263)

I don't want it on my phone, so I only use the Messenger client there, and only use the rest of FB on my laptop.

My understanding is that the hip and with-it (or the under-30s) don't use FB anyway nowadays.

For me, it's almost purely a slightly better version of SMS.

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by superpie on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @04:24PM (#19791576)

Facebook sort-of-recently introduced measures to defeat ad blockers, which I think has greatly increased the number of clicks.

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by the_af on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @05:42PM (#19792264)

Surely any clicks resulting from adblocker-defeating measures are unintentional clicks by frustrated users?

People who install adblockers are people who do not want to click on ads.

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by taormina on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @05:45PM (#19792302)

Well, some of us do: https://adnauseam.io/

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by perl4ever on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @08:05PM (#19793278)

Is there any benefit to that? I mean, does it convince anyone of anything, like that you're not using an ad-blocker? Or is it a pure public service?

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by r3bl on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @02:40AM (#19795051)

I don't use it myself, but as far as I understand it, the idea is to increase the noise you make so that any signal you make would get lost.

Ads can't be tailored to you if you click on every ad ever shown to you (in the background of course).

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by alexkavon on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @04:52PM (#19791836)

Yes the “Similar to other stories you’ve interacted with...” has introduced a nice new level of spamvertising.

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by the_af on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @05:43PM (#19792272)

> who clicks on these ads?

Me, accidentally while trying to tell facebook to never show me that ad again.

Like you noticed, the ad situation has become dire.

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by rconti on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @04:42PM (#19791732)

It could be a boiling the frog thing, but IMO the desktop experience hasn't changed much in a few years. It's not exactly information-dense, but more so than Twitter, somehow, despite the latter's "short text only" origins.

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by return1 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @04:32AM (#19795437)

imho, advertising is an extremely fuzzy business. Advertisers throw money on campaigns because facebook tells them to do so, and then increases their prices. It generates revenue for sure, but i dont see it working out well in the long term

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Re:Facebook is redesigning its core app by tenebrisalietum on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:16PM (#19793946)

mbasic.facebook.com

Still cluttered and awful but fast.

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