Facebook Releases New Design, Bugs Abound
Posted by Nick O'Neill on July 21st, 2008 12:08 AMFacebook released their new design tonight and it threw the platform into somewhat of a chaotic state for a period of time. The update went live at around 10:15 PM eastern and it appears that the errors continue to be taking place right now. Many users have been complaining that the site has been inaccessible. Some pages are clearly not displaying properly if at all. For instance click on the “Account” link in the navigation has been displaying the following screen in my Firefox browser:
Applications Get Randomly Punished
One of the most significant concerns voiced by developers when the platform launched was that the new design was going to hurt the virality of their applications. Right off the bat I noticed that some applications were no longer displaying in my links. Considering that some of these were my most frequently used applications it seemed strange that the link no longer appeared. I needed to search for and bookmark the application in order to get the link back. This appears to be a small issue but it could have a significant impact on some applications.
Not Completely Accessible
I’ve had multiple people contact me now to complain that the new site is not accessible. I’m guessing that these problems will be resolved over the coming hours as Facebook works to make all the last minute changes which went unnoticed or popped up when pushed to the live platform. Have you found any other bugs with the new release?
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I have noticed some strange behavior with the imported news feed stories. For example, a Digg news feed story looks like "{actor} dugg {item title} on {=Digg}", followed by the title of the dugg item and my name. That's definitely not normal. Also, I don't see any option in the new interface to import items into the feed (Digg, Flickr, del.icio.us, etc). It makes you wonder if the new design was really ready for launch.
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You are using an incompatible web browser.
We detect that you're using an old version Internet Explorer that doesn't work very well with Facebook..
To get the most out of Facebook, please upgrade or download one of the following browsers:
Note: The beta site is currently disabled in IE6 because it's all messed up and broken. Don't worry, we'll have it working IE6 soon.
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1. Wall posts rarely show up when users with new facebook write on the wall of a user with the old facebook.
2. When you delete a story from your minifeed, it doesn't delete properly, half the time
3. Sometimes, when you try to add a new tab on your profile, it doesn't stay as a tab.
4. When using FB chat, users appeared to be signed off in middle of a conversation when they never logged off. Within minutes they "sign back on" without doing anything special. It just happens.
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5. When you add a box tab with an application in it, then delete the application, the box tab still remains with nothing in it rather than disappearing.
6. The photos section does not show newly tagged photos all of the time.
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Some of the oldest wall posts don't appear on the wall itself.
To be explicit, when I got to the profile and click "Older posts," I get a message that "____ has no recent activity." I am positive there are older posts; as a matter of fact, these missing posts appear when I access Wall-to-Wall.
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