因用户电脑太烂 Facebook弃用新页面

新华网3月31日电 据科技博客网站Gizmodo报道，Facebook去年原本设计了一款非常美观、带有很多大图的新版页面，但最终没有推广，主要原因不在设计，而在于广大用户的电脑分辨率不够。

去年社交网站Facebook发布了一款非常好看的新版页面，页面上有多张好看的大图，如上图所示。但是Facebook最终没有将这款新页面推广，为什么呢？因为大多数人的电脑太陈旧了，用不了这么好的页面。

企业家达斯汀·库迪斯声称，Facebook最终放弃这款新版页面的原因是该页面无法带来足够的广告收入。但Facebook产品设计师朱莉表示，达斯汀的说法是错误的，并在Medium发贴解释说，用户电脑的老式监视器是Facebook无法展示美好产品的主要原因：（以下是朱莉的贴文的节选）

我的电脑是高分辨率、27英寸的监视器，也许少数人也有这个配置的，但是绝大多数人的电脑监视器不如这个。低分辨率、小屏幕的屏幕要比高分辨率的苹果及戴尔监视器普遍的多。旧版的页面设计我们在10英寸的上网本上做试验效果也不是很好。一篇文章甚至不能在一个视窗里展示出来。很多人上Facebook一般都是用自己的个人电脑，而不是手机或平板电脑。点击或拖动浏览器的滑动条下拉页面，还是很多人的使用习惯，并非每个人都有触摸板和滑轮。如果因为每篇博文长度过长导致阅读时需要大量下拉网页，或者导航页面设计得太开需要使用很多鼠标点击的话，那这个网页的使用体验就不是很好了。要知道，用户们或许不是那么快就能适应新变化，或者他们的硬件设备不如我们专业，他们的用户体验对我们来说非常重要，因此我们没有推广那个新版页面。

朱莉还反驳说，如果采用那个被遗弃的新版页面，带来的广告收入在很多情况下会比以前更多。Facebook已经做出决定，因为其不能适应大多数人的老旧屏幕配置，新设计不会被采用。最终，他们还是选择了每个人用起来都方便的页面。下次，如果你要抱怨Facebook页面难看的时候，或许你该审视一下自己的问题，自己的电脑配置够格了吗？

译者：张艺

Facebook Ditched a Fancy Redesign Because Your Computer Sucks

Last year Facebook debuted a nice redesign that featured big, beautiful pictures, seen above. But Facebook never rolled it out. Why? Because most people have crappy old computers.

Entrepreneur Dustin Curtis had claimed that the reason for the redesign abandonment was because it didn't drive enough advertising dollars. But Facebook product designer Julie Zhuo said he's wrong, and explained in a Medium post that your old-ass monitor is really the reason we can't have nice things:

It turns out, while I (and maybe you as well) have sharp, stunning super high-resolution 27-inch monitors, many more people in the world do not. Low-res, small screens are more common across the world than hi-res Apple or Dell monitors. And the old design we tested didn't work very well on a 10-inch Netbook. A single story might not even fit on the viewport. Not to mention, many people who access the website every day only use Facebook through their PC—no mobile phones or tablets. Scrolling by clicking or dragging the browser scrollbar is still commonly done because not everyone has trackpads or scroll wheels. If more scrolling is required because every story is taller, or navigation requires greater mouse movement because it's further away, then the site becomes harder to use. These people may not be early adopters or use the same hardware we do, but the quality of their experience matters just as much.

Zhou added that the foregone redesign would have actually been better for ad money in some cases. But Facebook decided that it wasn't the best for most assholes with low-res monitors of yore. In the end, they went with something that worked better for everyone. Next time you're looking for someone to blame for a Facebook design you don't like, you should probably look at yourself. [Medium via Business Insider]