Comment on New Facebook design: Thoughts?parentComments−jfarmer17yReally? With the old feed it was only updated every N minutes. Say the feed refreshes every hour or two, for the sake of argument.Users who are more engaged than that see a stale homepage.Facebook is pretty data-driven, so I'm sure that have a whole suite of metrics that tell them this is a good move. At least I hope so.−jfarmer17yPut another way, with the newsfeed there was an engagement ceiling. Letting your hardcore users be as hardcore as they want keeps them there.
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Really? With the old feed it was only updated every N minutes. Say the feed refreshes every hour or two, for the sake of argument.
Users who are more engaged than that see a stale homepage.
Facebook is pretty data-driven, so I'm sure that have a whole suite of metrics that tell them this is a good move. At least I hope so.
Put another way, with the newsfeed there was an engagement ceiling. Letting your hardcore users be as hardcore as they want keeps them there.