That’s one reason I stopped using that shit. I laugh when I think at how I used to believe Wal-Mart was evil. Wal-Mart ain’t got nothing on Big Tech.
True enough (my bolding).
But Walmart still is kinda evil.
Mine does that, with FB Purity, but it doesn’t tell me a specific time frame.
FB Purity came up with a new extension a few days ago that is supposed to allow me to stay on old Facebook indefinitely. So far so good. Last time Facebook switched me over to new, I was able to switch back for 2 days (kind of like a snooze alarm). Then I installed this new extension (I think that’s what it is) and several days have gone by and nothing. And I noticed that the little drop-down arrow doesn’t even have the option to switch to new Facebook.
I don’t understand what settings to put FB purity on to get it to go back. It just looks like you have to select thousands of individual links.
Also, today FB went to the new format full time and won’t let me switch back.
You want RevertSite (revertsite.com) by the same developer as FBP.
It’s funny, I usually despise site layout “upgrades”, like Digg, Reddit, and honestly the SDMB one isn’t great either. But the FB one seems like an improvement to me. Now granted I only visit FB about once a week and already thought it sucked, now I just think it sucks a little less.
I now have a list of things I’m not happy about. Bear in mind that my primary interaction with FB is with a computer, not a mobile device, and said computer has a 32" wide, 16:9 monitor.
- I dislike the new interface because I have to move my cursor a lot more to get to either the left or right column. Thanks to my monitor size, there is a fuckton of whitespace between columns.
- The left column has been rearranged to add items I rarely use and hide items I do use. I don’t use Friends, for example, but I do switch to from Top Stories to Most Recent, and the last time I looked, that was hidden under See More instead of being up top where it’s easy for me to find. (NB: I do like that it’s now a toggle instead of a click News Feed, select preference.)
- I have to scroll further down the page to find items in the left column because of all the added space.
- They’ve added a bunch of panels on the middle column that I have no interest in (Rooms, for example) and there’s no way to get rid of them. I didn’t even like it when they put “Stories” in there. All these do is mean I have to scroll down a lot further before I actually start seeing posts from people, which is what I go there for.
Due the recommendations here, and the fact that Facebook stopped allowing me to go back to the old layout, I finally installed Facebook Purity. I was able to get rid of the annoying space-wasting “Stories” and “Rooms.” I also now don’t see “Shared a memory” and “Your memories” posts. I’m really not interested in seeing what I or someone else posted five years ago.
It also allows you to block puppy and kitty photos. What I would like to be able to do is to allow photos of my nephews’ kids, without seeing any other posts from their wives or partners who mostly post them. I’ve had to snooze them because they incessantly post about their emotional hang-ups (of which they have a lot). The last time my nephew’s girlfriend’s snooze period was up, I got 20 posts in a row from her of memes about her emotional state. I had to snooze her again. My other nephew’s wife is a goth who constantly posts about how she can’t wait until Halloween is here starting in February.
I use Social Fixer, but it’s just the one dude and he has a day job. He’s doing his best, but if I understand it correctly, FaceBook is making its API incredibly obscure.
Right now I can still go back to “the old view”, so I’m keeping on with that. And telling FB why I keep switching back, too. I only glanced at it briefly today, but it looks as if some of the extra spacing was removed. That or they just made very single column BIGGER. It looks a little like Twitter now, except not as easy to use.
FB switched to the new layout again. I went to click switch back for 48 hours. It wasn’t there. The new FB caused my whole laptop to freeze. I closed the Firefox tab with FB. The problem went away. I sat there and cursed at my computer.
RevertSite (revertsite.com) is your friend. It’s working fine for me in Chrome, and the developer says there’s also a Firefox version.
This is infuriating. The new “look” is not designed for PC. It freezes up every few minutes. If it doesn’t it just stops, you can’t scroll any more. The only reason I even use FB is for work and for a few groups. Since the switch I get no notifications or any indication that there are new messages in the group. The first few days I would get a notification but if I clicked on it the link would just go to the group, not the post. Now I don’t even get this. And it matters in my work group because we share information all day long. We decided to switch to a group PM, only now I’m not getting PM notifications either.
Even crazier, if my daughter PMs me I might not get it for an hour. We’re like thirty feet from each other separated by a single door! At this rate she could hand write a letter to me and send it by pack-pup. The messenger for my phone is even worse. It will never show up there until I go to send her a message then I’ll get the past 20 messages built up since the last time I messaged.
I wish I could use those extensions but both seem to cause issues with my work scripts. I only use Chrome for that though, so maybe I’ll try with Firefox.
I want to see pictures of the pack-pup.
Social Fixer has an extra plugin called Old Layout, which brings back the old layout. So far it is working beautifully. Toss a few shekels in the developer’s direction; he’s pretty much a one-man shop and this is not his day job. FBs redesign has him working overtime in a lot of ways, and I think FB tried to force Google Play, at least, to remove the extension. I’ve tossed him some money at him a time or two; it’s probably time to do so again because this was a big, big effort.
Crap. I was happily using Facebook Purity with the old design and suddenly it started showing the new design. Based on a message on Facebook Purity, it seems Facebook has taken away the old design entirely. So we may be stuck.
Yeah, FB Purity really seems to be struggling with the new design, he’ll probably figure it out eventually. Luckily, I don’t mind the layout. I just liked FB Purity to get rid of the ads, some of the useless (to me) stuff down the sides and, above all else, put the feed in chronological order instead of ‘random’. I have no idea why scrolling more than a page or so brings up posts from days ago, even if they have nothing new added to them.
Another thing FB Purity did was automated the process of removing all the pages that had access to your information. I have no idea how you get on those pages. FB would say that you interacted with them, but I’m quite sure I’ve never interacted with a random car dealership in another state or that I “liked” pages having to do with ‘cured meats’ or ‘rodents’ or whatever. I go through every few months and deselect them all, but FBP made quick work of it.
Also, regarding the ads, just for the hell of it, I like to report every single one of them. Just pick a random reason and report it. I know they have to make money, but a 5 minute scroll through facebook shouldn’t be serving up dozens of ads.
One of my major objections is that they made the posts larger, I assume so they show up bigger on a phone. But I browse on a desktop or laptop, so that just means more scrolling. You would think that considering the enormous number of users they have they might allow for more customization of the experience.
[Depending on your browser…] hit Ctrl–…er, that’s Control and minus a few times. That’ll make it smaller. If it works as planned, that size should remain for that website. If you navigate away, everything should be back to normal, and the next time you go to facebook, it should be at the size you left it at.
Control and Plus will make everything bigger
Control and Minus will make everything smaller
Control and your mouse wheel should also zoom in/out.
Control Zero resets it to 100%
PS, when hitting Control minus/plus, you don’t need the shift button, so, technically, it’s Control_ and Control= if you’re not using the number pad.
Where’s the facepalm emoji when you need it.
Thanks. I never thought of that. Most sites are fine at their regular size, and if I zoom in it’s for some specific thing and I zoom out before leaving the site. There’s no other site where my preferred size is smaller.
Revert Site is no longer working either. It was working a few hours ago.