Good news for the Parse team, but not so good for Parse users.
Why? We're not going anywhere. Email me if you want to chat - ilya@parse.com
For the love of code, please place a 'delete account' option within your gui.
Facebook buys Parse
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Re: Facebook buys Parse
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If google keeps ramming their social network product down peoples throats it won't be very long before they have more than just a social networking problem.
As a user my G+ experience is so far superior to my Facebook one that I laugh every time I read something like this. I check my G+ every day because my streams are interesting and I enjoy it; I check my FB everyday because my entire extended family, pre-school friends and their dogs have accounts there. People are crazy to think that Google should not just have one account that spans all their services, it makes busi…
I have a G+ account, 'branded' and everything. However, I also have other Gmail accounts I've created over the years, like a spam account I use to sign up for spammy websites, etc.
The problem is, Google wants me to unify all those, 'brand' them, and get them on G+ and Youtube, and keeps popping up annoy ware about it. One of them on Youtube recently tricked me, and I'm still not sure I selected the most appropriate option.
I appreciate Google is offering fairly granular choices, along with the choice to make no change at all. But this is just more noise and cognitive overhead I don't want to have to deal with.
I already use Google's full unified services they way they want me to with my primary account, I wish they'd just realize that and drop it with the rest.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
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We export password hashes right now, as far as I know. Is that not the case?
Nope, not from the last export I did a few weeks ago. Please check and make sure, because this is a crucial link to the level of trust with the continue support of Parse and FB
We just tested it. Here's what it looks like:
{ "results": [{ "photoId": 0, "useLocation": true, "username": "Kdhddv", "createdAt": "2012-05-08T22:41:13.187Z", "updatedAt": "2012-05-08T22:41:36.454Z", "objectId": "zeAsRRxu61", "sessionToken": "y67zp3emfcpto44v4qp0mvqyf", "bcryptPassword": "$2a$10$6XZsksIvrUW5vW9j86pbK.spXCdJFDyhiQlqg/yFNhD8FkwEslwHu" } ] }
Re: Facebook buys Parse
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As a user my G+ experience is so far superior to my Facebook one that I laugh every time I read something like this. I check my G+ every day because my streams are interesting and I enjoy it; I check my FB everyday because my entire extended family, pre-school friends and their dogs have accounts there. People are crazy to think that Google should not just have one account that spans all their services, it makes busi…
Perhaps enjoying the use of it, and having everyone and their dog on it, are mutually exclusive? Some kind of extra variable in Metcalfe's law :P
Perhaps- then again G+ has a volume for each of your circles so you can get less of the less interesting stuff on your feed.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
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Nope, not from the last export I did a few weeks ago. Please check and make sure, because this is a crucial link to the level of trust with the continue support of Parse and FB
We just tested it. Here's what it looks like: { "results": [{ "photoId": 0, "useLocation": true, "username": "Kdhddv", "createdAt": "2012-05-08T22:41:13.187Z", "updatedAt": "2012-05-08T22:41:36.454Z", "objectId": "zeAsRRxu61", "sessionToken": "y67zp3emfcpto44v4qp0mvqyf", "bcryptPassword": "$2a$10$6XZsksIvrUW5vW9j86pbK.spXCdJFDyhiQlqg/yFNhD8FkwEslwHu" } ] }
Awesome! Thanks for checking and verifying, awesome to see the response.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
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> gift third party developers with APIs... Phrasing like this concerns me. When making platform decisions, I would very much like greater assurance that there is an expectation of how a relationship matures than you would find in a "gifting" scenario. I feel like sometimes the attitude from Facebook has been "We're giving all of this stuff away for free! What is there to complain about?" Free means no expectation of…
I think the word gift and give in this context are interchangeable. Sounds like you found a word to pick at and are now just hating Facebook for the sake of it. (You managed to extrapolate that Facebook has 0 assumed reliability because he used the word gift.)
Quite the contrary, I think Facebook is great and is only getting better. But as someone who builds a lot of stuff on their APIs I can say it's easily the shakiest component of our architecture.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
#277Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?
Funny how StackMob quickly put together a migration page: https://developer.stackmob.com/parse/migration
We had been getting lots of requests for a migration tool prior to the announcement.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
If google keeps ramming their social network product down peoples throats it won't be very long before they have more than just a social networking problem.
As a user my G+ experience is so far superior to my Facebook one that I laugh every time I read something like this. I check my G+ every day because my streams are interesting and I enjoy it; I check my FB everyday because my entire extended family, pre-school friends and their dogs have accounts there. People are crazy to think that Google should not just have one account that spans all their services, it makes busi…
i dont understand why people say g+ experience is superior to facebook.. every time i come across a g+ album i find it very annoying.. that i have to reach the top corner to close the slide show of the album.. and the fact that when i reach the last picture of the album and i click next i get suggestions to checkout some random g+ albums.. all i wanted was to go to the beginning of the current allbum..
and i can see more stuff in a facebook page, less scrolling..
i know this is subjective that people prefer different things. but it annoys me soo much that people are soo vocal about g+ being superior to facebook in design/usability sense.. i don't see it..
Re: Facebook buys Parse
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There's a comprehensive list of BaaS providers here -> http://www.kinvey.com/backend-as-a-service
That chart is quite entertaining. Too complex to be accurate but very informative.
It's not even close to being accurate. StackMob has multiple official partnerships with companies on that list that include full integrations, not just compatibility, but you only see one line of integration to Heroku. It would take 30 seconds worth of research to show how inaccurate that chart is.
Re: Facebook buys Parse
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Bummer. Can I ask why this changed your mind? At FB, we're quite serious about finding ways to gift third party developers with APIs, tools, open source, platforms, whatever we can do to help. I think Parse is pretty awesome and is likely to become more so at Facebook. That's a useless opinion if it's not shared by the wider community, though. So: feedback taken seriously - we're listening. Fire away.
> gift third party developers with APIs... Phrasing like this concerns me. When making platform decisions, I would very much like greater assurance that there is an expectation of how a relationship matures than you would find in a "gifting" scenario. I feel like sometimes the attitude from Facebook has been "We're giving all of this stuff away for free! What is there to complain about?" Free means no expectation of…
[nod] I think it's absolutely true that in the most stable relationships, both sides stand to gain. There is definitely much to learn from the pioneering work Amazon has done in this space.
For what it's worth, I'd be very interested to hear your at-length talk about the things Facebook could easily take care of that would make your life easier. Fire away. :) dew@fb.com.