More Facebook changes today. Shortly after the move to the new UI they had it perfect, apart from the annoying and utterly pointless “See more…” click-iness. They had saved themselves, after the Great Exodus.

But now they’re slowing starting to ruin it again, with more changes. They’re also soon to push more work on Group admins through regrettable back-end changes.

The latest change today is to huge ‘blaring’ images. These now overpower the text and links, and make it difficult to concentrate on these. The new ultra-wide central column now also makes it more difficult to read across the text. With this and the very unwelcome Group changes coming, I’m definitely considering taking all my Groups over to an amalgamated WordPress blog. Most likely with a newspaper-like template. By which I mean an old-school news newspaper, not one of the modern hives of clickbait and pop-ups. Though perhaps not quite this old-school.

It’s surprisingly difficult to use search to cut through the ocean of robo-made shovelware templates, but Gabfire’s old $60 WP Newspaper (aka Advanced Newspaper, or Advanced WordPress Newspaper) theme is still a classic and now in v3.6. Here blurred and inverted so you can see the basic structure and how it might look with a Dark Mode on it…