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after having been involved in multiple products that relied on facebook, i would not be surprised if this was just their way to let developers know they discontinued the sdk. But don't worry they write a blog post when they bring out the successor in a few months.
But if they discontinued it, then they have little reasons to put money into improving it.
It's funny to me. A while back there was a thread on HN about the SDK going hay-wire and taking apps down with it. I sometimes wonder how much damage (financially, technically and socially) a single "shutdown" command can cause. Seems developers don't bother to test/handle certain failure scenario. Because this API or this server will be available until the heat death of the universe and will never fail. Also shows F…
Also, _WHY_ do these large scale API providers think that just letting the connection hang is in any way acceptable. Their load balancer, cache layer, proxy, literally anything in front of their API can return an error immediately instead of just waiting for the API. Even just returning a 504 for gateway timeout (which is probably the right thing to do) would be better than just sitting there and never returning anything.
By my count from the status page[0], the FB JS SDK has had issues for 30 of the past 90 days. That's not even one 9. [0] https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/
This is client side javascript right? Did they push a bad release, or is the server not responding appropriately?
It’s too bad the core website didn’t go down with it. I believe the majority of users, at least those in the USA where FB is based, would be better off without it. A week-long FB outage would surely result in a very interesting study of society’s response and adaptation to said event.
People will only discover they can live without FB like I did. Never came back to self glorification platform.
The other problem is that I would not have the same conversations with my conservative relatives as my liberal friends, and it feels awkward that everything is visible to everyone.
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People will only discover they can live without FB like I did. Never came back to self glorification platform.
Especially during the pandemic it would be nice to have something that facilitated online communications with people I know IRL. I've never understood how to use it, whenever I go on I see someone's post and like it maybe go to comment only to realize it was from five days ago. People talk about getting into huge discussions and spending tons of time on there, I mostly see a handful of semi-stale posts, a handful of…
It’s too bad the core website didn’t go down with it. I believe the majority of users, at least those in the USA where FB is based, would be better off without it. A week-long FB outage would surely result in a very interesting study of society’s response and adaptation to said event.
By my count from the status page[0], the FB JS SDK has had issues for 30 of the past 90 days. That's not even one 9. [0] https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/
That's assuming each issues lasted 24 hours right?
In reality, FB is just being highly transparent with issues and I should applaud them, but that's a lot of yellow and red.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
People will only discover they can live without FB like I did. Never came back to self glorification platform.
Especially during the pandemic it would be nice to have something that facilitated online communications with people I know IRL. I've never understood how to use it, whenever I go on I see someone's post and like it maybe go to comment only to realize it was from five days ago. People talk about getting into huge discussions and spending tons of time on there, I mostly see a handful of semi-stale posts, a handful of…