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Facebook breaks OAuth (facebook.net)
3 points by abhijitr on Sept 1, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Appears that over at Facebook the severity of bugs decreases over time. That "push" has been going on for 1/2 the day. My guess is that the team will fix it in the morning once they feel well rested.

Does anyone actually like working with Facebook's API? I hate it.

On the other hand some APIs give me warm fuzzies like Twilio's. Twitter is also good when it's not down - but at least the company cares and engages with the developer community and lets everyone know what happened and what they're doing to fix it.


I've been doing stuff with the Facebook Graph API for the past week and I must say it's been the most frustrated development experience I've ever had. The documentation is so poorly written and out of date that it's virtually impossible to understand anything of it. Facebook development seems like a combination of black art and a bag of tricks. Not to mention that if you develop for Facebook integration there is no way to decently test your application. My guess is that this will severely impact the developer base for Facebook apps which will result in less and less companies willing to advertise on the platform.




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