Facebook has returned the “Most Recent” tab to Page walls, allowing users to view a reverse chronological stream of updates by the Page and its fans. The removal of this version of the wall was the most criticized change in the February 2011 Page redesign. Users can choose to switch between the Most Recent and the relevancy filtered “Top Posts” view, but admins can’t currently set Most Recent as the default view.

The change will please some unhappy admins who argued that the relevancy filter surfaced comments that were too old, especially admins whose Pages focus on current events.

Last month’s Page redesign included significant changes to the Page wall. Instead of the option to show users the Most Recent real-time stream of updates, admins could only show the Everyone view, which surfaced recent posts by friends, posts by other users in same language or country, and posts that have received a lot of Likes and comments. This sometimes surfaced comments that were days older than the latest comments.

Facebook has now renamed the Everyone view “Top Posts”, the name Facebook tested the relevancy view under in January. When admins set “All Posts” as the default view for their wall in the Edit Page admin interface, the Top Posts tab appears first.

Only admins could see a Most Recent view, which helped them make sure they’d read every post for moderation purposes.

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