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I have a humble request for all of you developers who are building facebook apps. Please create an open source project (or a forum with all the tricks you are d

by tsycho 16y ago

I have a humble request for all of you developers who are building facebook apps. Please create an open source project (or a forum with all the tricks you are discovering) so that everyone doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. Basically, please collaborate your efforts to create a more reliable unofficial API documentation for FB. Ryan Waggoner wrote a similar post like this a few days back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1731427 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1731427), so this is clearly bugging a lot of people. Please collaborate your efforts if possible.

atomical 16y ago
Is there an unofficial wiki for Facebook developers that is independent?
rwhitman 16y ago
I agree, an up-to-date unofficial FB developers wiki would have been really useful on the last fb api project i worked on
portman 16y ago
For starters, more people could support the Facebook Developer proposal at StackExchange. http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7285/facebook-developers http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7285/facebook-deve... Personally, I think the StackOverflow engine would be a great way to build up a crowdsourced wiki of FBAPI knowledge.
- hrabago 16y ago
  The problem is, with every iteration of API changes that FB makes, existing entries in such a forum would go obsolete. This could just increase confusion.
  - tsycho 16y ago
    Yes, but if enough people are using this wiki/forum, then it will remain updated as users experience breakages due to API changes.