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Ilya 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 mis

Ilya 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 14y ago
I 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 14y ago
Facebook 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 14y ago
  (FB tool here) How can we make our documentation & communication not awful?
  - BenSS 14y ago
    I 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 14y ago
      I'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 14y ago
    Make it more like the Parse documentation.
coldtea 14y ago
Well, actually Facebook choose them. And lots of money were involved. So we can all be cynical to the "culture compatibility" thing.
- dopamean 14y ago
  He said they had multiple offers and chose Facebook partly because of compatibility. Maybe that's not actually true but I didn't make it up.
  - coldtea 14y ago
    No, I didn't say you made it up. I'm saying even if they said it we can still be cynical about it.
    - dopamean 14y ago
      Fair enough.

Ilya 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 14y ago

I 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 14y ago

Facebook 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 14y ago
(FB tool here) How can we make our documentation & communication not awful?
- BenSS 14y ago
  I 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 14y ago
    I'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 14y ago
  Make it more like the Parse documentation.

coldtea 14y ago

Well, actually Facebook choose them. And lots of money were involved. So we can all be cynical to the "culture compatibility" thing.

dopamean 14y ago
He said they had multiple offers and chose Facebook partly because of compatibility. Maybe that's not actually true but I didn't make it up.
- coldtea 14y ago
  No, I didn't say you made it up. I'm saying even if they said it we can still be cynical about it.
  - dopamean 14y ago
    Fair enough.