I am shocked...time for Fabric to build a backend?
Facebook is closing Parse
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Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#12Does anyone know why this is happening? It was kinda buggy because of its Mongo foundation, but the concept itself was pretty great.
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#13It's really hard to build trust when products disappear. Building on top of google is hard for this reason, and Facebook is beginning to look eerily similar. Recall all of the wonderful social graph access that once existed and see, now, the wake of crippled API's where they once lived.
Since it is impossible to build everything from scratch, some compromise must be made, but I wonder whether that compromise can reasonably include offerings from $BIG_CO? Certainly open-source projects implode as well, but rarely with the scale of things like Google Reader or Parse...
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#14I just started developing something in parse in the last 2 months, i really really liked the platform, this totally sucks. Does anyone have any recommendations for alternatives with similar features?
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#15Well good thing this came out just now. I was literally about to start another parse project tonight.
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#16I am happy to see that they're not using any of the insulting language that would land them on http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/.
FYI, here's the announcement of the acquisition from April 25, 2013: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/the-future-of-parse/
Relevant bits:
Q: Will my Parse app be affected in any way? No.
Q: Will Parse apps have to use Facebook functionality? No.
Q: Will Parse honor my contract? Yes, of course.
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#17It's really hard to build trust when products disappear. Building on top of google is hard for this reason, and Facebook is beginning to look eerily similar. Recall all of the wonderful social graph access that once existed and see, now, the wake of crippled API's where they once lived. Since it is impossible to build everything from scratch, some compromise must be made, but I wonder whether that compromise can reas…
What's even more ridiculous is that their homepage says:
From startups to the Fortune 500, hundreds of
thousands of developers *trust us*.
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#18Which alternatives would people recommend?
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#19Wonder why they actually shut down? Seems like it was an unexpected decision.
Re: Facebook is closing Parse
#20Any specific reasons why? Always thought they were doing well, reasonably popular etc
Providing developer services is not Facebook's core business.