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I get it, but besides making it easy, FB made online communities worse. They have absurd limitations that you only realize once you're in too deep. For whatever
by franga2000 6y ago
I get it, but besides making it easy, FB made online communities worse. They have absurd limitations that you only realize once you're in too deep. For whatever reason, for example, nudity is banned even in private groups on FB, so several photography groups I know are trying to go back to forums and blogs, but can't migrate their content, nor get most people to cooperate, so many of them are juggling multiple FB accounts because they keep getting temp-banned (and I'm not talking porn here - these are actual photographers that are regularly featured in big galleries).
There was also a game dev group that died out because FB kept flagging their users for spam. Turns out posting executables makes it think you're spamming viruses, even though it's just a gane prototype you want feedback on.
Finally, the quality of discussion is worse no matter what the content is, as FB forces the post>comments relationship, with comments being way less visible and usable than a top-level post.
And this isn't just one grumpy programmer screaming into the void - I only know about that because friends and relatives (from young to quite old) keep complaining to me and asking me for workaround to these limitations. Of course, the answer "just use something other than FB" is rarely accepted.
- girvo 6y agoI wonder if a modern discussion platform with Facebook as the login provider (and some deeper integration of content, perhaps?) would help bridge this gap?