Facebook launches new Photo Viewer

Facebook has changed the way to show photos in newsfeeds. If you now click on a photo, a light-box will pop up which shows the picture instead of linking to the page that contains the picture. With the new photo viewer Facebook wants to simplify commenting and sharing of photos. Also, you better keep on track and don’t have to rescroll through previously read updates in order to find the last post you read before clicking on the picture. The new photo feature will also allow users to look through their photos without having to change the page they are on.

Facebook says, that the old photo viewer was ’supported by some of the oldest code in the system and was in dire need of an upgrade.’ More than 100 million photos are uploaded to the social network site each day. Facebook assumes that the ‘new photo viewer is able to boost views of photos by more than 5%’, Facebook continues.

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