My OperaHow I hate broken "improvements"...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:26:42 AM
This has been prompted by the latest couple of updates to the Facebook iPhone app.
This thing is a classic case of fixing something that wasn't broken, and in the process buggering it up, big-style.
It was trumpeted as showing the FB news feed in sone kind if better way: in fact it's split it into the same incomprehensible choice you get in desktop FB: Top News and Most Recent. I have yet to figure out the difference, apart from each shows different things in a completely random way. The iPhone version used to just show one version that seemed pretty complete. Unfortunately, in making this change they seem to have comprehensively broken the damn thing: neither view works properly any more, rarely showing more than one update, half the time completely blank. And still showing the twirly thing that shows it's busy trying to download something, but failing.
This morning it added insult to injury by adding a "People you may know" thing to the top of the feed, with no way if hiding it or turning it off. As these suggestions are always for complete unknowns or people I do know but don't want to connect to, this just clutters up my display and makes it even more annoying that it isn't showing the news feed properly. Arg.
You start to wonder what's up with these folk. They're just mucking stuff about for the hell of it.
The same thing happened to Firefox, but luckily it's been possible to revert it to a sensible interface with the aid if a couple of extensions. And before Opera get all smug, I'm not impressed with the interface changes in the latest versions. Just because Microsoft decided to be idiots and replace sensible menus and toolbars with that bloody ribbon thing doesn't mean you should be just as daft.
*bangs head*
This thing is a classic case of fixing something that wasn't broken, and in the process buggering it up, big-style.
It was trumpeted as showing the FB news feed in sone kind if better way: in fact it's split it into the same incomprehensible choice you get in desktop FB: Top News and Most Recent. I have yet to figure out the difference, apart from each shows different things in a completely random way. The iPhone version used to just show one version that seemed pretty complete. Unfortunately, in making this change they seem to have comprehensively broken the damn thing: neither view works properly any more, rarely showing more than one update, half the time completely blank. And still showing the twirly thing that shows it's busy trying to download something, but failing.
This morning it added insult to injury by adding a "People you may know" thing to the top of the feed, with no way if hiding it or turning it off. As these suggestions are always for complete unknowns or people I do know but don't want to connect to, this just clutters up my display and makes it even more annoying that it isn't showing the news feed properly. Arg.
You start to wonder what's up with these folk. They're just mucking stuff about for the hell of it.
The same thing happened to Firefox, but luckily it's been possible to revert it to a sensible interface with the aid if a couple of extensions. And before Opera get all smug, I'm not impressed with the interface changes in the latest versions. Just because Microsoft decided to be idiots and replace sensible menus and toolbars with that bloody ribbon thing doesn't mean you should be just as daft.
*bangs head*
Nigel CliffCaptainPenguin # Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:36:22 PM
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