Diving into Facebook Timeline's UI

http://arnorhs.com/2011/12/03/diving-into-facebooks-timeline-ui/

by arnorhs • 15 years ago

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arnorhs2• 15 years ago

Please let me know if there's you think there is something that the article misses.

blhack2• 15 years ago

How do I enable timeline for my profile?

This is frustrating because I'm actually a facebook developer who would actually like to look at ways of incorporating this into my project.

I know there was a workaround for a while that involved signing up as a dev to get in on the preview.

le sigh

arnorhs2• 15 years ago

Go to http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline and click "sign me up" at the bottom right

blhack2• 15 years ago

It's greyed out for me :(

moxiemk1• 15 years ago

This page, like several other parts of Facebook, is completely inoperable for me. Something in the page dies before it gets to the <body> tag.

This is perhaps irrelevant to the topic, but it's really frustrating that there's basically no way for me to do anything about this. I've waded through their highly unhelpful help pages to submit bug reports for all the things I've found not to work, but this has been the case for months.

I assume that I managed to be a part of an A/B test that causes some really inoperable things to happen? Regardless, it sort of reinforces my negative opinions of Facebook engineering when something can consistently break for me to the point that it renders no page.

north• 15 years ago

Nice write-up. I think it could be a pretty interesting thing for people that don't interact via status updates very often, like me. Can you set permissions on the timeline per user/group?

brandnewlow• 15 years ago

I really dislike the Timeline UI. I've had it on my profile for a few weeks now and find it impossible to parse and unenjoyable to read.

henrikschroder• 15 years ago

Wait, is Facebook really rolling it out? I don't know anyone that has it that hasn't gone through the developer hoops to get it. Didn't they say they were going to roll it out for everyone in October or something?

Why the delay?

(Aside from the fact that it's the creepiest thing they've ever made)

idoh• 15 years ago

My app's referrers from the timeline have grown from a really really small # to only a really small #, so I think it is in fact gradually being rolled out, but I'm not sure.

zachallia• 15 years ago

It's weird that they don't show the mini icons by default next to the text in the main profile links. They do a little animation to show them when you hit the down arrow to show more.

That could solve that problemo.

Diving into Facebook Timeline's UI

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