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I like FB less and less - for all the same reasons that others here have posted. It is especially frustrating and vexing to me because I had build a "Facebook c
by intrasight 9y ago
I like FB less and less - for all the same reasons that others here have posted. It is especially frustrating and vexing to me because I had build a "Facebook clone" about fifteen years ago that had all the features that I would like to have in a social/informational web service. Surely there are other places we can go online that have a better user experience. I am curious what other web sites people are using to do social blogging. Alternatively, are there any good "Facebook skins" (web clients built against the FB APIs) that provide a better user experience?
- iaml 9y agoThere are some clients for mobile devices, but I'm pretty sure if anyone were to make such a skin, and it were to gain any meaningful popularity, facebook would just kill its API access or threaten with legal repercussions because its explicitly forbidden to do this [0]. [0] https://developers.facebook.com/policy https://developers.facebook.com/policy
- intrasight 9y agoLots of stuff there. Which one says you can't use the API to build a read-only client? Makes no sense that they would have an API for something which is forbidden.
- iaml 9y ago4.1 Add something unique to the community. Don’t replicate core functionality that Facebook already provides. 4.4 Respect the limits we've placed on Facebook functionality. Read-only client violates 4.1, as it replicates news feed. Changing how news feed is formed is a violation of 4.4.
- intrasight 9y agoBut it doesn't "replicate" the newsfeed because the newsfeed doesn't show me what I want to see.
- Jaruzel 9y agoThe current version of the FB API doesn't allow posting. So any third party app would be read-only. Earlier API versions used to allow posting, but of course they took it out.