Facebook’s decline feels less like a redesign problem and more like a refusal to delete the junk.
The moment it got unusable for me was when I stopped trusting that the feed meant anything. Too many modules, too many suggestions, too many little UI tricks fighting for attention.
If you were forced to redesign it, what would you cut first? I think a good version would remove way more than it adds.
the suggested posts are the first thing i’d cut.
once every few tiles is some random page or reel, the feed stops feeling like people you know and starts feeling like a mall kiosk. that’s when i leave, honestly.
“mall kiosk” nails the vibe. the second my feed is more reels and random pages than actual friends, my brain just goes “ok this app wants me to browse, not connect” and i bounce. i’ve done the hide/mute thing too and it never sticks. it feels like you’re sweeping the floor while the conveyor belt keeps dropping more junk behind you.
Most people seem to agree the core failure isn’t “bad new UI,” it’s that the feed stopped being a reliable signal. Suggested posts, reels, and random pages injected every few tiles turn it from “people you know” into an attention mall, and once you feel that shift you stop trusting anything you see there.
The unresolved caveat is that the junk is there because it’s the business model, so a pure “friends-first” feed fights the incentives and tends to get eroded over time. Practical takeaway: if you had to cut one thing first, cut all injected recommendations from the main feed and make them a separate, opt-in tab so the default experience can be predictable again.
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