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Temporal graph visualization is quite lacking. It probably depends what one time slice of your network looks like.

If you have 10 to 20 nodes without a ton of edges you could use a fixed circular layout for the nodes on a timeline that just the edges change over time.

More than this and you start getting into hairball territory even without the changes over time. A hairball changing over time is even more useless than a hairball on its own.

The standard force directed layout is really quite useless other than seeing the global structure of the graph. The uselessness is more obvious when you try to change it over time. I suspect the layout is so standard because the visualization looks so cool.

Most data visualization though has this same problem. There is almost this property that the cooler and more beautiful the visualization is, the more useless it is as far as containing any insight about the data itself.