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I'll say congratulations to the individuals who helped build Parse and show everyone good developer docs. As a user of Parse, I'm done. I have zero confidence
by BenSS 13y ago
I'll say congratulations to the individuals who helped build Parse and show everyone good developer docs.
As a user of Parse, I'm done. I have zero confidence that the service will continue as is for very long, despite the best intentions of the original team. Biggest concerns are requiring FB auth, FB's flippant attitude towards privacy, and the engineering culture mismatch.
- dopamean 13y agoIlya Sukhar specifically cited the culture compatibility as one of the reasons they chose Facebook. I'm curious about why you think that there is a culture mismatch.
- benatkin 13y agoI think it's similar between the culture compatibility of Instagram and facebook. They became culturally compatible because the main people involved in the company being acquired adapted their ideals to become a part of the acquiring company for a giant payoff, big whoop.
- BenSS 13y agoFacebook is perfectly willing to release "features" of unknown quality to the user population. The developer documentation&communication is still awful (instead of outright misleading as it was a couple years ago). This seems completely counter to the way Parse has operated so far. Perhaps on a personal level it's a great fit, but in operation? Doesn't seem like it.
- dweekly 13y ago(FB tool here) How can we make our documentation & communication not awful?
- BenSS 13y agoI will admit this may have changed in the past 8? months, but the last couple experiences I had on different platforms was headache-inducing. Search (on FB docs) would turn up examples for X that just did not work. It didn't seem like the reference examples were tested when the API was updated. Blackhole/flag any examples that fail. The only thing worse than no docs is misleading docs. Another annoying event was app settings would vanish when submitting. Edit: Okay, I went over to the developer site and it looks like things have improved more from the docs side. Progress! Can you say with certainty all the new examples work?
- dweekly 13y agoI'd hate to make a guarantee I couldn't stand by. Let me say this: they're all supposed to work - if you find some that are b0rk3d, please let me know and we'll fix/remove them.
- rdouble 13y agoMake it more like the Parse documentation.
- coldtea 13y agoWell, actually Facebook choose them. And lots of money were involved. So we can all be cynical to the "culture compatibility" thing.