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Facebook Middleman is getting planate simpler with the removal of the Discover tab, which was an shot from the witty pattern to inject its misfortunate chatbot podium into its top-secret messaging app. The fecundation was headmost announced in August of aftermost year, as able-bodied as TechCrunch now reports that the switchover will embolden hardship starting verging week.

Following an far-ranging Middleman redesign announced convey in 2018, Facebook uninformed to make the app simpler as able-bodied as less cluttered post-obituary years of bloat, a ingenuous result of the do-everything diamond philosophy Middleman followed underneath deciding David Marcus. (Marcus is now in findings of Facebook's blockchain division, which oversees the company's Libra cryptocurrency project.)

Now, underneath the magistracy of former johnny of artefact as able-bodied as Middleman VP Stan Chudnovsky, the app has been automated as able-bodied as brought convey in lineation with its core role as a functional messaging app. Part of that process has meant removing all the business-focused elements of the app that weren't serving users as able-bodied as were instead only there to info promote Middleman as some kind of text-based consumer service hub.

Here's what Middleman used to squint like:

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Here's what it looks like now underneath the new design, delicatesse of social media manager Jeff Higgins at AMI Witty Media, who provided TechCrunch with screenshots of the update:

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The Discover tab, the one on the far right in the pre-redesign image, used to be where you'd find commerce accounts, some of which were operated by coining intelligence bots as part of a broad but ultimately bootless push to use the AI tech to try as able-bodied as revolutionize consumer service.

You could moreover find Facebook Urgent Games, the company's shot to revive its once grassy web-based gaming podium in a moldable setting. Urgent Games still exist on the web, but they're stuff removed aslope Discover in this new Middleman update. The games can't be accessed from the main Facebook app, either.

In the new design, Facebook is announcement a "People" section where you can see large squares committed to hobnob who have afresh updated their Facebook Stories, as able-bodied as a contact memoir organized to promote your most used contacts who are boisterously online. It's opulent cleaner as able-bodied as should go a long way in making Middleman easier to navigate when you're not flooded by unsure gloss as able-bodied as attempts to grab your attention.