[dingoonline]

Big difference between what the article says:

"The idea behind the Explore Feed is to help Facebook users discover more content across the social network, beyond posts from friends and Pages you already follow. Instead, this feed surfaces recommended content it thinks you might find interesting."

And what the author of the Medium post says: "All posts by pages are moved from News Feed to Explore Feed. In main News Feed are now just friend and sponsored posts."

If the first is true, then eh. Another useless tab I won't ever use. If the latter is true, then this is a gamechanger. Facebook has turned into the literal feed of news for many people for many years at this point.

If it's reduced back down into what it was in 2010, it's going to outrage a lot of older people who use it for more than a friend feed.

[josteink]

> If it's reduced back down into what it was in 2010, it's going to outrage a lot of older people who use it for more than a friend feed.

And some people (like me) would be really happy.

For me at least, the facebook feed at this point is just pure SPAM and garbage.

[visarga]

They could have let it to the users to decide if they want news or family posts. Then there is no conflict between them any more.

[dingoonline]

Likewise. But I know plenty of people who would be livid if suddenly they couldn't see the crap clickbait on their feed.

[smcl]

The "News Feed" => "Explore Feed" thing reminds me of this image, someone on Twitter created it when Twitter starting muddling around with their feed:

http://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2017/03/31/05706b1f-125b-...

[cousin_it]

That image is by Jon Bois who went on to create 17776 https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football which is amazing.

[smcl]

Ha it's funny I couldn't remember the original author (I had to google something like "timeline product") only that he had a Hobbes avatar :-D

[jlgaddis]

Holy crap, I just spent I don't know how much time reading this and, you're right... that truly is amazing. Thank you!