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I was turned off as soon as the list of permissions showed up: Access my basic information: OK Send me email: OK Post to my Wall: No. Why do you need to pos

by sanj 16y ago

I was turned off as soon as the list of permissions showed up: Access my basic information: OK Send me email: OK Post to my Wall: No. Why do you need to post to my wall? To spam my friends? Do you have a better reason? Access posts in my News Feed: No. There's private stuff in there which you don't need. Access my data any time: No. I like the idea of my auth-token only lasting an hour. It limits the damage you can do.

mcs 16y ago
Access to News Feed is required to pull content. Posting is required for sharing. Access data at any time allows you to stay connected so you don't have to sign in with facebook every time you go to the site.
- mootothemax 16y ago
  Access to News Feed is required to pull content. I thought you could do it all via the Open Graph API /links/ feed? Or am I missing something? :)
- sanj 16y ago
  This is incredibly misleading. 1. You don't need access to my newsfeed to grab PUBLIC posts to my newsfeed, only private ones. 2. Posting is NOT required for sharing, only for "sharing" without the user's explicit permission. You can always use stream.publish, show a FB lightbox and share. Or user share.php. 3. You don't need to "login to FB every time you go to the site". An app can re-up the access token if there is a logged in Facebook account. If there isn't, you can ask the user to login. Again, this is typically used to pull data when you're not logged into FB at all. Shady.
  - mcs 16y ago
    "sharing without the user's explicit permission" is what happens when you click "I like it too!". A popup detracts from the user experience.
mootothemax 16y ago
Agreed - I just wanted to take a look at it first, not agree to handing over my entire account. What would work for me is to be asked at the time if I want to grant a permission (e.g. "Share this on my wall" triggers a Facebook alert the first time). I realise that this is extra work and there's a chance most users will agree to the initial screen without comment, but it's stopped me from going any further.

by sanj 16y ago

mcs 16y ago

Access to News Feed is required to pull content. Posting is required for sharing. Access data at any time allows you to stay connected so you don't have to sign in with facebook every time you go to the site.

mootothemax 16y ago
Access to News Feed is required to pull content. I thought you could do it all via the Open Graph API /links/ feed? Or am I missing something? :)
sanj 16y ago
This is incredibly misleading. 1. You don't need access to my newsfeed to grab PUBLIC posts to my newsfeed, only private ones. 2. Posting is NOT required for sharing, only for "sharing" without the user's explicit permission. You can always use stream.publish, show a FB lightbox and share. Or user share.php. 3. You don't need to "login to FB every time you go to the site". An app can re-up the access token if there is a logged in Facebook account. If there isn't, you can ask the user to login. Again, this is typically used to pull data when you're not logged into FB at all. Shady.
- mcs 16y ago
  "sharing without the user's explicit permission" is what happens when you click "I like it too!". A popup detracts from the user experience.

mootothemax 16y ago

Agreed - I just wanted to take a look at it first, not agree to handing over my entire account. What would work for me is to be asked at the time if I want to grant a permission (e.g. "Share this on my wall" triggers a Facebook alert the first time). I realise that this is extra work and there's a chance most users will agree to the initial screen without comment, but it's stopped me from going any further.