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Hi, I'm Doug Purdy, Director of Developer Products at Facebook. I wanted to weigh in here to explain how we think about some of these things. Successful iOS and Android developers …

I replied on the site, but I'll share my comment here as well. I work on Facebook Platform. We never "turned off the Requests functionality for apps that are not labelled as games,…

I work at Facebook. We absolutely do care about our API. We are working as hard as we can to make our API less buggy and more stable. Over the course of the past year, we have adde…

I work at Facebook. My short response is that the repository is public once again, with a notice that it is deprecated. I personally apology for the churn. My long response is that…

The account was not disabled. I am not going to go into specific details of what our system does, but we require that the developer verify their identity when we take a policy acti…

I work on the Platform team at Facebook and wanted to respond to some of the comments on this post. Breakup Notifier is an interesting idea and an example of the sort of engagement…

I agree with most of the comments here and on the blog post; having hit many of the same issues myself. Fortunately, I get to do something about it. I work for Facebook (joined ~3 …