New Facebook Photo Album Layout Launching for Everyone, Showing Up to 200 Photos Per Page
Facebook has long said that it is prioritizing engagement over pageviews, and the latest evidence of that has arrived, in the form of its new photo album layout. You can now view up to 200 photos on a single page, ten times the previous 20 photos per page you could see in the previous layout. You don’t need to click through consecutive pages of an album this way, you can just keep scrolling down the page.
The company officially announced the change today (although we and many others have been seeing the change for weeks) and noted a couple other benefits to the new design. One is that additional photos on the page only load as you scroll down, so the change won’t slow down your browser; another is that the thumbnails are slightly larger, making the page easier to browse.
Photos have already been getting some upgrades lately, including the tag-a-friend option and larger sizes, and we expect more to come.
August 11th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Looks like Facebook is going through a few changes: http://jsncafe.com/2010/08/facebooks-coming-out-of-the-box/
August 11th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
salam khobi man khobam to chi
August 12th, 2010 at 7:26 am
I don’t see the change on my photo page. How do you get it?
August 13th, 2010 at 1:46 am
Still, Not everything’s as rosy as it seems. In this neew album view, portrait pictures appear cropped to show as landscape. This cropping feels arbitrary. Also, the “view Photo comments” is missing so you cannot see all the coments for all the photos at the same time. Also I hate to have to scroll to the end to see the album comments.
August 16th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Great that now you can see many photos at once, unfortunately the cropping of the photo ruins the composition and often it is cropped in an uncomplimentary way…both to the photo and the people in it! I want to see the entire photo! That or have the option to change the thumbnails viewfinder! What is the point of seeing many photos if it is cropped in the worst way?
August 17th, 2010 at 12:37 am
[...] vartotojai atnaujintą albumo formatą mato jau kelios savaitės, Facebook‘as apie tai paskelbė tik praėjusią savaitę. Vartotojai jame pasigedo naujausių nuotraukų albumo komentarų, tačiau greit patys [...]
August 23rd, 2010 at 5:35 am
Cropped images annihilate much of the appeal and interest in the album view. A lot of time and effort have been spent on editing and positiong the pictures together in an album, and now this all has been RUINED. Please reverse this.