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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by gurkendoktor »

mingfli wrote: post #266
gurkendoktor wrote: post #230

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Late last year, I've tried to integrate Facebook into two tiny iOS apps. It sucked, and I'm not going to touch Parse in the future. One of the few things I needed was an app request dialog. It didn't seem possible from the SDK docs (at least not clearly so), the only way was to use the deprecated global Facebook object: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13351584/how-to-send-user... There was no definitive list of po…

The replacement is FBWebDialogs, and it's not beta. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/send-requests-us... The definitive list of properties for the request dialog is documented here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/reque...

Thanks, good to know. Apparently they have been added in SDK 3.2, which was released after we gave up.

Two examples of inconsistent documentation that I've seen while looking this information up:

The documentation for common dialog parameters still links to the deprecated API even though there are web and native dialogs now: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/

The iOS Games SDK refers to SDK 3.1 in its introduction but uses FBWebDialogs, and my old copy of the SDK (3.1.1) does not have them yet.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by csmajorfive »

joeybaggles wrote: post #174
csmajorfive wrote: post #64

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I've been through an acquisition before. We're not going into this without having thought through the future.

https://gist.github.com/brianpattison/5463282 "Being acquired isn't part of our game plan for now. We want to build a viable business that people can use and enjoy. We have 50k apps built on our infrastructure and a huge customer base that is growing rapidly. Everyday we have more and more Basic, Pro, and Enterprise users paying us for our awesome services."

Everything in those quote is correct. It wasn't part of our game plan at the time. It was never our "game plan" in general. In fact, at the time, we were planning the strategy for a fundraise.

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Post by rahoulb »

fizzbar wrote: post #261
rahoulb wrote: post #208

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I can already feel the pressure building to start using G+, just to help with search engine results. Which makes me resent G+

Indeed. I think Youtube's "Hey, you should use your real name!" nag to be a very unsettling sign of things to come. My friends @ the Googleplex also note that there was a large schism internally wrt the whole "real name" push, but that's all heresay anyway. I found the article I mentioned: http://www.fastcompany.com/3004448/plus-one-proof-google-plu... The author thinks G+ will be huge by the end of 2013, which is mu…

The inverse of that is the Microsoft experience - I can remember a similar resentment slowly building across the late 90s. We all still used MS products, and jumped to their tune, but the underlying resentment meant that as soon as an alternative appeared (OSX for some, ipods and/or iOS for others) we jumped as quick as we could.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by tn13 »

psbp wrote: post #260
jacquesm wrote: post #257

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I don't use facebook either. So G+ is far inferior because at least I can get facebook out of my life.

Do you just not like the name? As voidlogic points out, it's basically a generic account for Google services. There's a potential to engage socially, but you don't have to.

That is not true. I bought an Android phone and every photo I click gets uploaded to G+ (thought with closed visibility) I am unable to see how to disable it.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by mingfli »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #281
mingfli wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The replacement is FBWebDialogs, and it's not beta. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/send-requests-us... The definitive list of properties for the request dialog is documented here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/reque...

Thanks, good to know. Apparently they have been added in SDK 3.2, which was released after we gave up. Two examples of inconsistent documentation that I've seen while looking this information up: The documentation for common dialog parameters still links to the deprecated API even though there are web and native dialogs now: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/ The iOS Games SDK refers to SDK 3.1 i…

Thanks for that, will follow up and get those updated.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by JunoRockey »

merlinsbrain wrote: post #226
6thSigma wrote: post #95

As a Parse user I had hoped they would be a "never sell" type of company. This news saddens me. We will likely be migrating off soon.

As someone who was just about to use Parse, what options are you looking at?

I'd take a look at Scringo (www.scringo.com)
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