Facebook screws app developers on notifications
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Re: Facebook screws app developers on notifications
#2As a facebook user, I'm happy I'm not longer gonna get "your friend has invited you to this app..." notifications. As a developer, though, I can see why this would be frustrating.
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#3If your business model is reliant on annoying the users of a proprietary 3rd party platform, you shouldn't be surprised when the rug gets yanked out from underneath you.
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#4This is why all social integrations should be as light touch as possible: keep the value somewhere you control it.
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#5"So this is a warning - develop for the Facebook platform and run the risk of your business losing its whole value over-night."
This goes for using any platform. Look at the apps developed using the Twitter platform. This is one reason I've been trying to work on other ideas for a business, or to do my own crawling, for unscatter.com. Using API's from another company is always going to be a product risk.
Re: Facebook screws app developers on notifications
#6If your business model is reliant on annoying the users of a proprietary 3rd party platform, you shouldn't be surprised when the rug gets yanked out from underneath you.
The point was that if Facebook are providing the APIs and encouraging developers to use them then it's a crappy thing to yank the rug away.
I don't think that it's a great idea to build a business model that relies on Facebook - but at some stages of developing an app it is very useful to use Facebook facilities to implement a social graph and notifications, so that you don't have to.
Re: Facebook screws app developers on notifications
#7As a facebook user, I'm happy I'm not longer gonna get "your friend has invited you to this app..." notifications. As a developer, though, I can see why this would be frustrating.
The main frustration here is that the Requests are those that are actively initiated by a user. A friend is actively trying to invite you to the app, rather than just an app spamming those who have once installed it.
Re: Facebook screws app developers on notifications
#8As a facebook user, I'm happy I'm not longer gonna get "your friend has invited you to this app..." notifications. As a developer, though, I can see why this would be frustrating.
The main frustration here is that the Requests are those that are actively initiated by a user. A friend is actively trying to invite you to the app, rather than just an app spamming those who have once installed it.
I don't use FB apps, but by any chance is it common to provide rewards to users for inviting their friends via Requests?
Re: Facebook screws app developers on notifications
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main frustration here is that the Requests are those that are actively initiated by a user. A friend is actively trying to invite you to the app, rather than just an app spamming those who have once installed it.
I don't use FB apps, but by any chance is it common to provide rewards to users for inviting their friends via Requests?
Yes, at least if not directly - then by making it harder to proceed without "friends" playing the games.
Also, it's not like they have carefully selected the group of friends that they want! The ones I have seen just have a "Send to all friends" tickbox.
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#10I don't know if this has changed recently, but when the FB Platform launched, Facebook was notorious for constantly breaking publicly documented APIs. In fact, an unmaintained wiki was their official documentation.
I'm surprised anybody is still surprised when Facebook changes its rules without warning.