{"id":280,"date":"2008-09-08T00:18:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T08:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2008-09-07T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T20:27:38","slug":"new-facebook-design-is-a-significant-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"new facebook design is a significant improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Facebook users are <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2008\/09\/06\/facebookers-rally\/\">petitioning to keep the old Facebook design<\/a>.  I switched to the new design when I first noticed the option, and it is such a significant improvement over the old design that I would consider switching back to be a bit silly.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cleaner, more efficient, more informative design, that uses more of your screen space if it&#8217;s available. It is concise and refined by comparison to the old Facebook design.  At the end of the day, a lot of people don&#8217;t like change, hence their desire to petition.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome may not make the petitioners happy in the short term, but the bottom line in my opinion is that a complex social platform like Facebook cannot afford to maintain two diverging platforms indefinitely, and we&#8217;ll see the old platform removed shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Facebook users are petitioning to keep the old Facebook design. I switched to the new design when I first noticed the option, and it is such a significant improvement over the old design that I would consider switching back to be a bit silly. It&#8217;s a cleaner, more efficient, more informative design, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}