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The number one issue is documentation. (sparse and often incorrect). The number two issue is they change the API and don't announce the changes until people st
by jobu 15y ago
The number one issue is documentation. (sparse and often incorrect).
The number two issue is they change the API and don't announce the changes until people start posting questions asking why something is failing.
Number three is random failures with no error. (Did they change the API again or is it just a random recurring event?)
- podperson 15y agoJust the UI wrapped around app development is a nightmare. Even if the API were perfect, deploying apps would suck.
- sofuture 15y agoAh-ha, but you can automate so much app management through the admin API. Oh wait, they deprecated and froze the only API that handled that!
- wpietri 15y agoEntrepreneurs! Take my money! Let me publicly say something I've said privately: I will pay up to $1000/year for a subscription to a service that 1) documents the facebook APIs, 2) monitors examples and common usages and lets me know when they stop working, and 3) provides a weather report for the Facebook API servers letting me know when they're slow or sick. Heck, I might pay more. We waste far too much developer time dealing with the problems Jobu so rightly points out.
- micmcg 15y agoAgreed. Every advertising agency that works with Facebook would happily pay a subscription fee like that for the number of head hours it would save them.