{"id":8617,"date":"2021-01-26T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2021-01-26T08:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T08:01:04","slug":"more-regrettable-changes-at-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/01\/26\/more-regrettable-changes-at-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"More regrettable changes at Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More Facebook changes today. Shortly after the move to the new UI they had it perfect, apart from the annoying and utterly pointless &#8220;See more&#8230;&#8221; click-iness. They had saved themselves, after the Great Exodus. <\/p>\n<p>But now they&#8217;re slowing starting to ruin it again, with more changes. They&#8217;re also soon to push more work on Group admins through regrettable back-end changes. <\/p>\n<p>The latest change today is to huge &#8216;blaring&#8217; 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&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/old-newspaper.com\/demo\/\">not quite <em>this<\/em> old-school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s surprisingly difficult to use search to cut through the ocean of robo-made shovelware templates, but Gabfire&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/newsp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/newsp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8619\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Facebook changes today. Shortly after the move to the new UI they had it perfect, apart from the annoying and utterly pointless &#8220;See more&#8230;&#8221; click-iness. They had saved themselves, after the Great Exodus. But now they&#8217;re slowing starting to ruin it again, with more changes. They&#8217;re also soon to push more work on Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}