DISQUS

I'm finding it actually MUCH more busy to look at. I have several friends on myspace who are not on facebook, claiming "it's too confusing". I honestly don't think this redesign is going to help that in the least; I think it's only going to make it MORE confusing.

And today I noticed that the minifeed now ALWAYS shows timestamps! I had very intentionally unchecked that option in privacy settings; I don't want people knowing the exact times I do things. Come on. But there's no longer an option to turn that off!! VERY NOT GOOD

Not really, no. Although it has a few things that are better, overall it's definitely NOT a better user experience.

It's not loading for me -- redirects me to the standard www.facebook.com site. Which .. itself seems to be loading only 10% of the time at the moment, alternatively giving me a "connection reset" or just an empty page.

What I noticed this morning was the thumbs-up/X buttons were no longer there. When I reported it, Facebook support wrote back saying "Unfortunately, the functionality you are requesting is not currently available. We have removed these options to reduce clutter on the site." Even tho it's still listed in the help: http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=138

Personally, I liked the voting, and found it useful, particularly in helping me quickly tell which news items were new. And I didn't find it cluttering at all. Ah well.

"Cher, what are you doing?"
"I'm captain of the Pismo Beach disaster relief!"
"I don't think they need your skis."
"Daddy, some people lost all their belongings! Don't you think that includes athletic equipment??"