The new format also takes comments and tags and swings them over to the right-hand side instead of underneath each shot. This is a little jarring at first, but it’s an improvement — now we can look at both images and text sans scrolling. As a consequence, ads are now more prominent while scrolling through albums too. An entirely unsurprising bummer.
But the photos! The photos are (relatively) huge. It looks like the maximum size is now a hefty 960×720, which matches the graphical grandiosity of Timeline. With your fingers on the arrow key triggers, rifling through albums is now fast and extremely pretty — a long overdue augmentation of the social JPEG gold standard.
Now, two things, please: give us a full-screen mode, and when we delete photos, actually delete them.
(Note: if you’re not seeing the new view yet, log out and log back in. Worked for me).
Warren
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 9:14 AMIt seems very, well, Google+ like.. wonder where they got the idea?
Jeff
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 9:39 AMI do not upload photos onto facebook, prefer to use photobucket so that all my family can see and can retain some privacy.
Greg
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 9:51 AMAbout time to, Facebook photo’s have seemed really lacklustre since using Google+. An autosynch from phone feature like with the Google+ app for android would be nice to.
TSH
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM-autosynch from phone…
WP7 does this too. Honestly I wonder who had that idea first, MS or Google?
Nytrojen
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 9:53 AMThis freaked me out this morning – I thought I had changed a setting or something
Sam D
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 11:11 AMDon’t know if it’s mind over matter or not, but the colours (they used to really pump up the red channel) and compression on existing photos seems to look better to me.
Meh
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 4:16 PMWhat do you mean HUGE? A lot of my photos and my friends actually appear smaller! The ads on the side are HUGE and also extremely overpowering. Worst is the photo pop-up is snapped to the middle of your screen and you can’t move it anywhere! Arghh!
James
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 5:48 PMHow anyone can think this an improvement is beyond me. These designers simply CANNOT design, pure and simple. The huge white bar is highly distracting and buts up to the edge of the picture, ruining it completely. The totally unwanted rubbish displayed (Sponsored, ads) is also very distracting.
I have got used to holding shift while clicking FB pics, so they display PROPERLY in the original viewer.l
josh
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 6:57 AMHaha obvious troll is obvious
Brad
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 7:14 PMI see no ads on photo viewer ;) Ad Block Plus ahhh
Nick T
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 8:41 PMI really hope this means lower compression on “high quality” images
Hesh
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:02 AMbest ever??? its been very bugy. half the the comments dont come up. even after few refreshes. and everytime that happens none of the links on the notification drop down works either.
there is also the issue of image not loading properly and stuck on “loading”, which slows down the whole PC. thanks to chrome i can end task individual tabs.