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I think Facebook is worse. For the scale at which the platform operates, the quality of the documentation is abysmal. They're constantly breaking things and mak

I think Facebook is worse. For the scale at which the platform operates, the quality of the documentation is abysmal. They're constantly breaking things and making huge shifts in how the platform works, or even just where they're focus is. Very frustrating, especially when you have to explain to a client that you have no idea why feature X just stopped working, despite no one touching any of your code.

tres 16y ago
+1 Yeah, where else can you develop for an API whose main features go from brand-new to unsupported in less than 12 months? (Not just deprecated, but completely unsupported...) Developing for Facebook essentially soured me to any social API. & Twitter API horror stories have been all too common since way back when the fail whale was still a daily occurrence. Sorry Facebook, I don't have time to walk your treadmill for a pot of social fool's gold; I have no plans to include Facebook in my apps anymore. And Twitter? There's lots of people already trying to figure out how to monetize the service itself & thus far haven't really come up with anything that seems like it will really work... Not really the kind of foundation I want to build on.