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Anyone else feel that they've gone past the point of caring about what Facebook does anymore? Even from a developer standpoint, they've randomly deprecated so
by neya 8y ago
Anyone else feel that they've gone past the point of caring about what Facebook does anymore?
Even from a developer standpoint, they've randomly deprecated so many APIs, so many flows of doing something, ban you because you competed with a future product of theirs, that I wouldn't be touching anything relating to them remotely with a pole.
Yeah, you could argue that's the risk you take by working on someone else's APIs, but then, there are still so many successful companies out there who don't screw their developers as bad.
Even all the newer features they announce for developers to use translates into some sort of dark pattern for the end user, so still, I feel reluctant to work on their APIs. Eg. The watch party stuff. There's actually no way (even programmatically) to disable all watch party notifications.
Facebook became popular because of developers. Facebook will die for the same reason of screwing over the very people who helped them become so successful in the first place. I'm not even getting into the argument about the users who trusted them and their platform...
- beager 8y agoI don’t think Facebook became popular because of developers. They have certainly given the community some great tools and libraries, but I cannot think of any instances in the past ten years where people were saying “oh yeah, it’s a joy to develop on FB APIs”. Once they even acknowledged devs, they were so big that the infrastructure set up for development was all about the walled garden. Then there was the episode of prohibitive licensing of libraries that made it hard to sue FB if they were ripping off your product but you were building with React. If Facebook is going to die, it’s going to be because of something other than devs. Devs are not enamored with it. They’re at best beholden to it.
- athenot 8y agoIt looks like developers were just another group used by FB for their own purpose, when convenient. In this case, developers were the "growth hack" doing a big part of the legwork of increasing FB's value and stickiness to end-users, themselves used in order to sell data to the customers (advertisers). Rememeber when Zynga's stock was used as a proxy for FB as they were the first to go public? Now that FB the ad broker is big enough, they don't need to care about developers and only need to give the illusion that they care about the users.
- dgellow 8y ago> Anyone else feel that they've gone past the point of caring about what Facebook does anymore? From a developer perspective, I care about what Facebook is doing with their Occulus products. Rift-S and Quest are definitely something I'm looking for.
- kerng 8y agoUnfortunately Facebook seems to tightly integrate Occulus with Facebook - like you cant even use most things without logging into your Facebook account.
- bryan_w 8y agoThats not even a little bit true. You've always been able to create a completely independent oculus account
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