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What a joke. Is there a more bluntly obvious PR than inverting everything you're being criticized for?
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta
by yellow_lead on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:22PM
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The keynote video redirecting to a Facebook login screen is hilarious.
Why? The keynote video is on Facebook, that's why it would be redirecting you to a login screen.
I guess at least partially because part of the rebrand was supposed to be that you won't need a facebook account anymore to do meta things so gating the video is a little off-brand now.
You don't need a facebook account to access many pages on their website, like public groups. The video could've been public.
Meta has been live for a while as a Chan-Zuckerberg foundation project in open publishing. It is crazy they hijacked it for the corporation!
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta
by ButterWashed on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:29PM
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I'd say it's intentional, it highlights the transitional journey from one brand to another.
It's definitely intentional
It is strange that it doesn't use any type of animated transition so it does look like a typical FOUC issue even though it probably isn't.
It is good design, now it looks like a mistake so people react and talk about it rather than just ignore it.
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta
by lwansbrough on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:36PM
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It's definitely not intentional. If it was intentional it would be animated, and there's no indication in the HTML that it's anything more than a FOUC.
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta
by blsapologist42 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:05PM
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If it was intentional shouldn't it have some kind of fade animation?
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta
by nazgulnarsil on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:45PM
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It disabled my fucking back button. What a perfect encapsulation of what they are about.
You sure this isn't from FireFox Facebook container?
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta
by nazgulnarsil on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:48PM
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ah yeah, looks like it was that. I never would have noticed.
There can be no going backwards. Only forward!
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta
by quickthrower2 on Friday October 29, 2021 @02:24AM
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That page just gives me such a black mirror vibe.
Doesn't even load properly for me, page is unresponsive
Someone got to add "Advanced JS" to their resume!
Please don't do this here.
...I can't tell if it's intentional that the page loads initially with the "facebook" brand in the uppper left and then quickly overwrites it with meta.