It is weird to push the idea that Facebook is some kind of pinacle of good and easy to use UI. That's the first one. It's quite the opposite, with people constantly complaining how bad, clunky and confusing Facebook is. And it is not the recent trend either. It has always been this way and e.g. VK has always had a better UI/UX that Facebook (and Telegram's is better that Whatsapp's).

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ozim 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not as pinnacle of good - but pinnacle of “you don’t have to think, just scroll, occasionally like something” ;).

Then people expect accounting software to be just login click one or two buttons.

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philipallstar 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But still, compared to something like email, the previous standard for most people, Facebook was an unbelievable step forward. People complain about anything.

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twelvedogs 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

facebook literally obfuscates their UI to stop you turning off "features" they want to push on you

it is a UI designed to be hard to use

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taneq 8 hours ago | parent [-]

You're talking about two different things here (and I'm not condoning either, to be clear.)

1) UI = a clearly documented way to configure all features and make the software work exactly how you want.

2) UI = load a web page and try to do the thing you wanted to do (in this case communicate with some specific people).

FB is clearly terrible at 1 but pretty alright at 2.

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