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> They probably just ought to have spoken to each other. Twitter probably should have just done the dive to verify what deleting an app does. I would guess thi
by B-Con 8y ago
> They probably just ought to have spoken to each other.
Twitter probably should have just done the dive to verify what deleting an app does. I would guess this is mentioned somewhere in the docs.
- msravi 8y agoOk. So I spent a while on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ and in particular on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/ trying to find documentation on deleting your app. Wasn't very successful, and the search-box on the site wasn't very helpful either. In fact, the most useful documentation I could find on deleting a facebook app as a developer was on stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9962072/how-can-i-delete-a-facebook-app-that-i-developed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9962072/how-can-i-delete...). Perhaps someone who is a facebook app developer can chip in to say if this info is in their docs somewhere...
- Jare 8y agoI stopped developing Facebook apps a few years ago, but when we wound down our games, we did not delete the apps fearing precisely this problem, or related future problems like app name impersonation, squatting, etc. It just seemed too easy to imagine scenarios where deleting the apps could cause trouble, and the docs were useless for this. We simply turned the apps off (don't remember exact wording). Last I checked my dev email, I was still getting emails from Facebook warning of API changes and informing of our games' metrics and activity (!), so it is true that deleting an app is cleaner.
- lugg 8y agoFacebook probably shouldn't be destructive by default..