Fans of the Old Facebook Design Flock to Developer Accounts
Word seems to be out amongst the large group of users who are actively campaigning to retain the old Facebook profile design that if they sign up for a developer account they can still keep their choice of old or new.
User complaints about the new design have been flooding the developer forum over the past few weeks due to confusion about who’s listening in the forums – the developer forums are primarily used by Facebook application developers, not for feedback to developers of Facebook itself.
With the leaked workaround that you can install the developer application and thus retain the ability to revert back to the old profile – obviously necessary for developers who still need to maintain two versions of their application – the number of signups for Facebook Developer accounts has grown by nearly half a million users over the past day.
Facebook issued the following in response:
We are aware of this issue and are currently addressing it. A pseudo-fix should be available within the next day.
Whether Facebook will allow users to go back to the old design more readily remains to be seen. Facebook said last week that all users will be moved over to the new design in the “next few weeks.”
September 16th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
The new facebook is a disaster. I’ve been a facebooker since 2004 and has always liked their upgrade, this one is a big downgrade…
September 17th, 2008 at 5:40 am
[...] Inside Facebook points out that the feature exists for developers because they need to maintain their applications on both sites while the new version is being rolled out to everyone. But here’s the catch — in a week or so, when Facebook is finally done migrating all their users over to the new site, they’ll shut down that option for developers too. [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 10:06 am
[...] Inside Facebook points out that the feature exists for developers because they need to maintain their applications on both sites while the new version is being rolled out to everyone. But here’s the catch — in a week or so, when Facebook is finally done migrating all their users over to the new site, they’ll shut down that option for developers, too. Read More [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
the old facebook is way better and easier to find your way around as well as less problems on it with apps.
September 17th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
[...] like the site’s new design have found a loophole leading back to the old one. The trick is to sign up as a Facebook application developer — and you don’t have to even write a line of code! Facebook allows developers to use the [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
i want the old facebook please
September 18th, 2008 at 10:46 am
i want d old face book back plzzzzzzzzzz bring back the old facebook.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
This new facebook interface is a horrible embarrassment for the facebook team. It’s just horrible.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
the old facebook was sooooo nice … i hate the new one
September 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
i hate the new facebook i dont even no how to ues it grrrr!!!!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:23 am
[...] so upset over the site’s new design they’ve been forced to do something drastic: become Facebook [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 6:32 am
really the new facebook is so so so so bad i need to back to old facebook plzzzzzz
September 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Please help me to go back to my old facebook .
September 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
new facebook NOW please..
September 19th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
FUCK NEW FACEBOOK
September 19th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
The new facebook is really so bad, i need to back to old facebook.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
WHEN SOMETHING WORKS FOR YOU PERFECTLY., “WHY” MESS WITH IT UNTIL IT STOPS WORKING WELL ENOUGH????!!!
THIS NEW FACEBOOK IS NOT USER FRIENDLY …AND VERY ANNOYING!
I WONDER WHO CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA???
PLEASE BRING BACK THE OLD FACEBOOK. I DO NOT WANT TO FAZE INTO THE NEW ONE ANY TIME IN THE FUTURE EITHER.
IF THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE …YOU CAN BE SURE MY FRIENDS AND I WILL MIGRATE TO ANOTHER BOOK/SPACE.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
i want old facebook :(
September 20th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
i hate the new facebook too bring back the old facebook
September 20th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
please please please,help me get back to old face book, i am bewitched,botherd,and bewildered,
September 21st, 2008 at 2:51 am
piease help me get back to old facebook
September 21st, 2008 at 4:36 am
Well i got the old back..but it switched again i will try anything to go back to the old one.
To be honest i just will not use it much anymore its very annoying and a really BAD layout who ever thought this up its the worst disign ever you should be sacked.
LISTEN to what people are saying WE DONT LIKE IT -WE WANT THE OLD ONE BACK…
Its crap and we demand something to be done give us a choice if everyone switched to the old one then you will know we are right you are just plain wrong.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:47 am
Whoever designed this new Facebook doesn’t have a clue what they’re doing at all! Not only does it take AGES to load now, I’m also flooded with errors… I will be writing a message, or on an application when suddenly the page closes down & jumps to one I don’t want (there are many other errors too)!!!
What’s up with the huge white space on the right now???!
September 21st, 2008 at 8:07 am
I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK!!!! I WANT THE OLD ONE BACK!!!!! =(
September 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
i hate the new facebook plz help me to restore the old one plzzzzzz
September 21st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
old facebook is better
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 am
[...] with groups being established in opposition to the changes, and an unprecedented number of users registering as Facebook developers (solely because developers can still access the old [...]
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:28 am
I actually really like the new Facebook. I really don’t understand what the deal is… Perhaps some people have trouble adapting to change?
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
what the heck?
the new facebook freaking SUCKS!!!!!!!!
i want the OLD FACEBOOK!
September 24th, 2008 at 8:34 am
new facebook is really annoying and i don’t use it anymore, can you put it back to the old one ???
September 24th, 2008 at 10:32 am
The new facebook really sucks…its so boring i want the old one back
September 25th, 2008 at 8:53 am
The 10 second delay to EVERYTHING loading on Facebook has me thisclose to quitting Facebook forever.
Complete disaster. What were they thinking?
September 25th, 2008 at 9:24 am
i hate the new facebook why cant we just have the old one back it was so much better come back old facebook please
September 25th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
i hate the new facebook it’s really sucks…its so boring why cant we just have the old one back it was so much better come back old facebook please
September 25th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
To get Facebook to change to the old Facebook design:
Windows users:
Install Cygwin, open terminal, and “ping -f http://www.new.facebook.com”
Mac users:
Open terminal, “ping -f http://www.new.facebook.com”
Linux users:
Open terminal, as root “ping -f http://www.new.facebook.com”
If enough people do this, Facebook will change back to the old design.
September 25th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
take out the auto http:// from the above comment, then it will work
September 26th, 2008 at 11:12 am
The new facebook is here to stay. At first I was against it too simply because we’re naturally resistant to change.
AFter getting used to the new one it loads faster and is much cleaner. I now like it better. Whether you’re for or against it it’s going to stay and here’s why:
http://www.taggzilla.com/website-traffic/tragedy-of-the-new-facebook/
It’s all laid out in gory detail the reasons for the change and the masters behind it who won’t let it revert back.
September 27th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I hate the new facebook!!! it boring,i think dat u shud hav a choice either u shud take old facebook or nut!!!!
September 27th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Sorry i made a mistake it was suppose to be to take the new facebookk or nut!!!!!
October 6th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
the new face book is crap man i hate it bing bk the old one pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
October 10th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
i don’t even like facebook any more… i can’t stand it any more… i don’t even bother reading my wall-posts on the site any more.. i just read them through my e-mail :S. please, please, please bring back the old facebook :(… i miss my profile being on one page, and i miss not not having my friends divided by networks, being able to count my wall-posts, see all my apps, see my bumper stickers and my graffiti wall ALL ON THE SAME PAGE!!!… and GAH! quite simply… I HATE IT! please!!! bring back the old facebook!!! :’(
October 19th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
i hate new facebook. ugh! its sooooooo boaring! u cant even find anything like u could on the old 1. so please do us all a favor and change it bak. PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
November 17th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I WANT NEW FACEBOOK
December 26th, 2008 at 7:34 am
new facebook bad old facebook cool
i want old facebook
March 14th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Everytime you get used to facebook upgrades, you go and change it again!!! I’ve had it with you fuckers!!!! My Space, HERE I COME!!!
March 15th, 2009 at 4:22 am
This new “dessign” sucks! Don’t be fooled by some of these disinfo agents ppl!!! Facebook earns millions on US and he treats us like we’re animals!!! We are human beings and fb users and if we don’t like something we’re gonna speak aboput it and we want to be heard!!! Everybody I know doesn’t like the new design. I don’t know what “information” Zuckerberg got and how he got them(did they ask every user on fb what they think about it? ~ And these majority of users who like new design,as they say, how do they know this??? Just becouse ppl can’t do anything about something doesn’t mean that ppl like it Zuckerberg!!!) That’s why ppl join massivly to anti-new design groups. Becouse they want to be heard!!!!!
Here are some groups please join them and lets make our voice stronger! Only together can we prevail!!!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=73139411001
July 4th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
thee neww facebook iss shitt i wantt the neww onee bakk !!!!!!!!!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:48 am
yes !!! I want the old facebook !!! because the new one is shiiiit !!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:57 am
why the facebook developpers do not back the old facebook ???
July 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
ugh
i hate this damn new facebook
i need the old one back
i dont know how to use this one!!
September 24th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
help me get my old facebook back this new version sucks
September 25th, 2009 at 12:03 am
da old version is da best plz plz plz help me get ma old version back
November 24th, 2009 at 12:25 am
i hate the new version of facebook it so bad…plz help me to get back to the older version of facebook…
November 30th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
guys just go to feedback in facebook lite… and theres a option of going back to old facebook …
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 am
shut up all of you people go fuck away the new version of facebook is much better than the old one don’t you like the new applications , the new style than you all are shit people … i’am now Fan of the New Facebook Design
December 12th, 2009 at 12:31 am
@nirav: thx dear
December 27th, 2009 at 12:01 am
its really irritating
January 4th, 2010 at 7:21 am
I want the old page back too. I hate the new one. PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK, or give users the option.
January 15th, 2010 at 1:30 am
really the new facebook sucks to the core,also when it comes to using apps like mafia wars n farm villie v cant even access these things,new version is horrible horrible horibble
February 5th, 2010 at 10:09 am
the new facebok is stupid and gay becuse i cant get acces to apps like farmville and messages i dont even know where the home button is now put it back o the old one
February 6th, 2010 at 5:45 am
i hate new one old facebook is so nice
February 6th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Why would you want to rock the boat when the old line up is working fine, what isn’t working fine is it takes a long time to get your gifts from gift box for both cafe world and farmville and then the screens keeps fading in and out which makes it difficult to play, this in my opinion is what you should be working on and leave the other alone it is working fine. I want to go back to old line up or I might start back on pogo.com again
February 9th, 2010 at 11:32 am
I want the old page back too. I hate the new one. PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK, or give users the option.
February 10th, 2010 at 6:15 am
I hate the new look also please email me back and tell me how to change it back to the way it was back to the old face-book I mean.
February 11th, 2010 at 4:19 am
dear facebook im not very happy at the way u keep chainging fb and im haveing so many problems with the aaps such as cafe world as it keeps crashing all the time also my mother has recently come onto facebook and she is very ill and this has confused her a grate deal i find this very inconveniant for all facebook users as its not an easy layout to go through i know a lot of people dont like chainge this this facebok chainge is some what takeing the micky slightly
so im beggigng u please put our facebook bk how it was and to think of all the storys that facebook want to start chargeing people for useing facebook what a cheak u guys are where u are tday cos of us facebookers so facebook should be how we want it to be and u guys should be asking us what we want done on fb and not be told whats goig to happen .
with grate respect to all the team on faebook please let us have the old one back pretty plz
many thanks hope to here from u soon
sarah glover
February 15th, 2010 at 10:44 am
ihate new face book iawnt old
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:31 am
please help me how to get old facebook?…
April 18th, 2010 at 4:18 am
new face book rily sucks why cant the fb management give as an option on wich to use it shuldnt b there decision to make
April 30th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Bring back the old facebook
September 12th, 2010 at 6:06 am
pls fix facebook so I can get my request and apps thanks
December 8th, 2010 at 10:22 am
I want old facebook !!
December 9th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Bring back the old facebook
December 16th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
I like the old Facebook better than new Facebook.
December 17th, 2010 at 6:18 am
The is a new facebook layout and it freaks, the old one was best. The are some changes which took place like the pictures appear smaller and you can’t view how many peaple are following pages like celebrities. Can the developers provide options so that we can be able to go switch to the old facebook.
December 21st, 2010 at 11:48 pm
where are LINKS in new facebook profile?
January 13th, 2011 at 1:27 am
I want my old facebook back please.. i dont like the new facebook. my status doesnt even stand out at the top and my bio is under all infos. which i waned about me under my photo. oh please bring back old facebook. im freaking out!
:-(
February 14th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
I just mistakingly changed over to the new Facebook, and now I can’t do anything with this new page. I don’t even think it has all the things on it that it should. This is very irritating. If anyone can get me back to the old Facebook it would be greatly appreciated. I really use to enjoy Facebook.