Thursday, August 18, 2011

Facebook rolls out changes to the chat, other experiments resulted in problems

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Facebook changes Facebook Sidebar chat, reported by several users. Now your favorite online friends to appear at the top of the chat, a separate list with the name "online friends". This makes it easier to find friends Facebook chat with often.

However, we also have seen reports where select users receive mini news feed in their chat sidebar instead. In cases of Somesa news channel appears above your contacts. This seems more of a pilot implementation.

Earlier in the sidebar, Facebook chat, presented by your friends you as one big list, in alphabetical order by name, not by relevance to you. For what it's worth it IM sidebar, I still have my Facebook profile, which specifies that the update is still in the process of deployment, as we speak.

Those who have received a new update IM seeing Chat Sidebar is divided into two parts, with a section containing the friends that you last chatted with at the top, the Division, followed by "more online friends" section below, where you can see the rest of your online contacts.

But that's not all!

Although there are fewer councils, following this, it seems that some users see a more experimental side of the Panel, which includes a mini news feed at the top. This news channel shows the latest updates from your friends and Facebook page, you follow.

This makes it seem like you have two News channels, which can feel a bit strange.

Other countries report that the fixed headers Facebook (the blue bar at the top – it doesn't move when scrolled).

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The cause of the problem?

It seems that most of these more oddball updates may be the result of testing the fill where Facebook rolls out new features to a subset of your users before you decide if or when it will roll the rest of the install base.

Updates can also be the cause of the problem, few people seem to be experiencing with the site this morning, which to date include the inability to sign, the trouble with using Facebook Connect, the problem of "Liking" things, the inability to write on the walls of friends and the inability to send status updates.

We contacted Facebook PR for comment and will update when we hear back.

Update Facebook in reply:

After we changed the way that Facebook chat works a few weeks ago, we got lots of feedback that people missed the opportunity to see all of their online friends. Today we made the changes to re-enable this function; Facebook chat now shows you the friends who interact with the most as the rest of your friends who are currently online.

Mini news feed "you mean this news feed test we work (and has for some time) and are associated with the changes we made yesterday.

Updated 2: Facebook wanted us to know that these issues with slow this morning were not linked to the chat and site works normally now.


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