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Re:Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes rede... by palish on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:27AM (#2820199)
Why do you say that? It seems fairly certain that if NYTimes one day looked like a blog, then their revenue would dry up. It would scare away a lot of people, such as my dad, who don't like change and who don't care about whether a website has rounded corners.
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Re:Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes rede... by eric-hu on Friday July 29, 2011 @01:15AM (#2820317)
On the other hand, Facebook has forced some fairly annoying changes with their chat interface, news feed and friend/group management. Maybe people won't be scared away that easily (put off is another story).
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Re:Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes rede... by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:45AM (#2820814)
>Facebook has forced some fairly annoying changes with their chat interface

They didn't force that change, you can just turn it off.

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Re:Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes rede... by esrauch on Friday July 29, 2011 @08:55AM (#2821487)
How can you turn it off?
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Re:Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes rede... by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:37PM (#2822642)
I don't really remember but when it appeared there was an option button/link and I followed it and one option is to switch off the sidebar. Never use messaging really.

Looking just now I have the old style tab, if I click it the sidebar pops open, there's a "cog" for settings in the bottom right corner. IIRC you have to set yourself as "unavailable" to all and then use the cog to select "hide sidebar". Try that.

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Re:Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes rede... by esrauch on Friday July 29, 2011 @01:00PM (#2822725)
Hm, I think we had a slight disconnect in our topic!

In the last week or two, Facebook changed their messaging UI so that you cannot get a list of all your buddies that are online to chat (it guesses who you would care to see) among other mostly cosmetic changes. AFAIK there is no way to use the chat UI that was available a month ago now (or see if a particular person is online unless you specifically type in their name).

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Re:Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes rede... by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:05PM (#2823565)
Indeed. I don't think there is a way to get back the scrolling list of who is online at present - but like I say I never IM people on FB.
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Re:Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes rede... by esrauch on Saturday July 30, 2011 @10:43AM (#2825856)
I am completely unqualified to say anything about both the NYTimes and website design for news. I simply am stating that many decisions made at billion dollar companies do not have as much thought put into them as you might expect.
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