Facebook Releases New Design, Bugs Abound

Facebook released their new design tonight and it threw the platform into somewhat of a chaotic state for a period of time. The update went live at around 10:15 PM eastern and it appears that the errors continue to be taking place right now. Many users have been complaining that the site has been inaccessible. Some pages are clearly not displaying properly if at all. For instance click on the “Account” link in the navigation has been displaying the following screen in my Firefox browser:

Applications Get Randomly Punished

One of the most significant concerns voiced by developers when the platform launched was that the new design was going to hurt the virality of their applications.

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