Facebook has incorporated the latest changes to the home page & news feed sections as per their recent announcement. The revision will see a revert to the algorithmically chosen top stories, instead of the real time stream and some important changes to feed stories and feed APIs that are crucial to developers.

Facebook’s feed stories have a reduced number of images that appear by default from three images previously to just one, with the addition of a ‘See More’ link that allows users to expand all three images in line. This step was taken by the social networking website since they felt the previous module rendered spam-like feeds which were a world away from their own simpler feed stories. Since previously, most applications were utilizing three images at the maximum size permissible in a bid to attract clicks/views in the stream; the revised parameters also saw a reduction in image size to 90×90 pixels with approximately the first 300 words reflecting in the feed stream. Lastly, regarding status APIs, Facebook mentioned, “We will still publish stories that call users.setStatus and status.set, but encourage all developers to migrate to the stream publishing methods, as they let you set a user’s status easily.”

To keep yourself abreast with the latest changes incorporated, check the Developer Roadmap section.