New Format for Published Posts to Timeline

Posted by Ninua, Inc. | Filed under announcements

Happy new year, everyone. We have a lot of new features planned for release in the next few weeks, but today we have a small update to announce. As Facebook opened the new profile Timeline to everyone, we started getting reports from users that once someone switches to the Timeline, all their blog posts disappear from their profile. This seems to affect some users, not everyone. As far as we can tell, it seems to be a Facebook bug, and we're hoping for a fix soon.

In the meantime, while we wait for an official fix, we experimented with a different publishing format with a few beta users in the last couple of weeks and confirmed that it doesn't suffer from the same issue above. So today, in the next couple of hours, we'll be switching to use the new publishing format. This will affect posts published to profiles only. Facebook pages and groups are not affected.

The new format is similar to the current one except for these small differences:

  • The "share" option on the new format is much better. When you click "share", it opens a dialogbox from which you share directly without leaving Facebook, instead of taking you to the post age like the current format does.
  • The NetworkedBlogs logo doesn't show under each post any more.
  • The small link to the blog profile on NetworkedBlogs that used to show under the post summary is removed as well.
  • If your post doesn't have an image, we will not use the blog thumbnail image. This is to avoid having an image repeated too many times if many of your posts don't have images. Also, the thumbnails tend to get out of date quickly if you change your blog theme or layout. So we're simplifying things by only publishing an image if the article has one.

This will go live very soon, and you should notice it the next time you write an article and have it published to your timeline (pages and groups are not affected). If you have feedback or questions about this change, please let us know on this thread.

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JAN.03

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