Facebook doesn't want to look like just another website, so it's testing a colorful new version of Facebook.com on a very small percentage of logged out visitors. It features a 3D polygon art map of the Facebook universe.
So next time you login, or finally surrender and sign up, you might be greeted with something a lot more vibrant than text inputs.
Our writer Drew Olanoff called the tested design you see up top as "ugly as sin" and "very busy". Personally I dig it, though it does make finding the email address and password inputs a bit more difficult.
Facebook confirmed the image sent in by one of our awesome readers and watermarked by us is real but otherwise just gave the standard "we're constantly testing new products and features across the site. We have nothing more to share at this time."
Along with the very small test of the polygon art, Facebook is showing some users a logged out home page with the "Chairs Are Like Facebook" brand video it released to commemorate reaching 1 billion users.
Facebook started jazzing up its logout page in February. It now frequently plasters the exit screen with big banner ads, some of which are interactive like a Bing search page or an in-line video seen below.
If push comes to shove with Wall Street, Facebook may end up putting ads on the logged out home page too. But that doesn't give a very good impression to people it's trying to convince to sign up or sign in more frequently. The polygon landscape dotted with Likes, chats, friends, and photos is much more inviting.
This story originally appeared in TechCrunch.
