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Facebook Platform, One Year Later
- swombat 18y agoAs someone who has developed FB apps, I have to agree, and add that not only are most users (myself included) jaded to the Facebook Apps and their diarrhea of invitations and notifications, but facebook app developers themselves are wary of trusting facebook with their time, effort, etc. There's a few reasons: - The main point of developing a facebook app was to reach a lot of users very quickly and cheaply. Now that Facebook has mercilessly nerfed all the viral features of applications, is there any point in tying your app to FB? - The FB platform has proved notoriously unreliable and requiring constant tweaking and oversight by app developers to keep their apps working with the latest backwards-incompatible changes that FB brought in. - The FB platform features themselves have fairly often been unreliable, with the standard error displayed to users blaming the application developers even when it was facebook's fault (e.g. when they broke their own FBJS) These and many things mean that myself and a number of people I know who used to develop FB apps would not consider doing so in the future.