Paper is a nice app but the biggest problem is that it's still full of garbage. Even though I've unsubscribed from the worst offenders of my FB friends, 90% of what's in my news feed is still crap.
Paper kills the ability to quickly scan the feed for the 10 percent of stuff that might interest me even momentarily. I can either see one thing at a time with the stories full screen, or three things at a time with them in an awkward location at the bottom of the screen and one of them (for which there is a 90 percent chance that I don't want to see it) taking up the top two-thirds of the screen.
It's certainly pretty and with some content other than my Facebook feed, it might be a good interface. It would be perfect if I wanted to read 90 percent of this stuff.
But that's the whole idea. It's to keep you more engaged. But that's not how I use Facebook. I don't want to "engage" with it. I've got a million things competing for my attention and most of them are better than my Facebook feed. I want to get in, find the interesting stuff and then get the hell out. I suspect I'm not the only one.
No, you are not, sir. In fact, I have to assume that the people who are hyping the UI don't actually use Facebook a whole lot. This is the 10 year anniversary video on steroids. When you scroll through the 90% shit on traditional Facebook, I can quickly pass through hundreds of posts in seconds. Going through them 3-4 at a time is the future? Eck.
> "It's certainly pretty and with some content other than my Facebook feed, it might be a good interface. It would be perfect if I wanted to read 90 percent of this stuff."
Paper kills the ability to quickly scan the feed for the 10 percent of stuff that might interest me even momentarily. I can either see one thing at a time with the stories full screen, or three things at a time with them in an awkward location at the bottom of the screen and one of them (for which there is a 90 percent chance that I don't want to see it) taking up the top two-thirds of the screen.
It's certainly pretty and with some content other than my Facebook feed, it might be a good interface. It would be perfect if I wanted to read 90 percent of this stuff.
But that's the whole idea. It's to keep you more engaged. But that's not how I use Facebook. I don't want to "engage" with it. I've got a million things competing for my attention and most of them are better than my Facebook feed. I want to get in, find the interesting stuff and then get the hell out. I suspect I'm not the only one.