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While I think it's awesome to have friends in high places, and I wish these guys the best, it reminds me just how miserable it was to work on the FB platform.
by barclay 16y ago
While I think it's awesome to have friends in high places, and I wish these guys the best, it reminds me just how miserable it was to work on the FB platform.
Their milquetoast, ever-changing policy that's occasionally enforced and frequent API updates and breakage was maddening at best. IMHO FB makes apple's app store policies seem "not so bad".
I understand that zynga and the lot have made a lot of money, and the level of traffic FB can provide is intoxicating... but I'll be damned if i'd do that again. This tale is a good reminder of why.
- mattmaroon 16y agoTheir platform is maintained pretty well from a technical standpoint. Breakages do occur, but their bug tracking system usually results in the big ones getting resolved rather quickly. Work on the MySpace platform a bit and you'll REALLY appreciate Facebook. They break crucial things all of the time and then just don't fix them for weeks if at all. Our experience with Apple so far has been ok. Lots of waiting, which is frustrating. We can update our Facebook app multiple times per day. With Apple if you ship a game with a bug that crashes it on some devices (oddly, despite having an iPad app, with all iPads being the same in every relavant way, our first app crashed on only some due to memory issues) you're screwed. You're racking up negative reviews for a week.