Facebook suddenly went down for about an hour Thursday, after an accident of exposing some of the incoming features for hardly 45 minutes, and apologized in a Twitter feed by tweeting "Some internal prototypes were exposed to people and resulted in us disabling the site briefly. It's now back to normal."
Mashable caught some of the screenshots of the prototypes, which include new Facebook Pages (with Questions integration), a “Switch Accounts” feature for Page Admins, a new Memories feature that chronicles photos and status updates from years past and a new and improved lightbox user interface for photos.
Facebook PagesFacebook Pages got a temporary facelift with the tab-free design, that closely resembles the new Facebook Profiles. Facebook Questions feature was also integrated into the Pages, and Facebook introduced a “Switch Accounts” feature for Page admins.
The lightbox user interface for Facebook Photos, previewed two months ago when Facebook upgraded Photos, was improved, although it seemed quite buggy. It lets view photos in a black box hovering over the rest of the screen with some minimal navigation controls and relevant social features, allowing to concentrate completely on the image at hand.
Memories
During the glitch, a new feature called Memories, appeared in people's profiles right below Photos. It showed options for jumping to photos grouped by years: 2010, 2009, 2008, etc. with complementing information like status dated status updates, the number of friends added per year, events attended and Facebook places check-ins. Memories would make for a pleasant walk down memory lane, so hope this features finds its way back to Profile Pages in the near future.
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