Facebook Plans to Remove Publisher Dropdown Due to Low Usage [Updated]
In a 2008 redesign, Facebook introduced an improved status-update toolbar, called the Publisher. In addition to just writing and publishing a status update to your news feed and Wall, you could also add attachments — links, photos, videos, events, or content from third-party applications.
But third-party apps were defaulted to a dropdown tab. And not many people used it, Facebook says, so it is planning to remove the attachment dropdown entirely; its own applications will presumably stay on the tool.
Given the dropdown’s apparent lack of popularity with many users and developers, the impact of the change should be just as minimal.
Update: A vocal group of developers say that they have been getting good use out of the Publisher dropdown, read more on this forum thread.
July 2nd, 2010 at 8:42 am
That’s too bad for the super users out there. At Socialbees we use this a lot to promote Wildfire campaigns, polls, etc. on our client pages. We’ll just attach these as links now, but the NF stories won’t be as nice.
July 2nd, 2010 at 11:16 am
Many developes use this feature – please see related thread on facebook dev. forum:
http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=64381
July 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 am
We’ve updated the story with a link, thanks Anatoly.
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
I don’t get it, and I don’t believe that people don’t use this.
I hope they don’t do it
July 4th, 2010 at 8:03 am
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