Facebook Plans to Remove Publisher Dropdown Due to Low Usage [Updated]

In a 2008 redesign, Facebook introduced an improved status-update toolbar, called the Publisher. In addition to just writing and publishing a status update to your news feed and Wall, you could also add attachments — links, photos, videos, events, or content from third-party applications.

But third-party apps were defaulted to a dropdown tab. And not many people used it, Facebook says, so it is planning to remove the attachment dropdown entirely; its own applications will presumably stay on the tool.

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