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AllFacebook: Don’t Place Restrictions on Applications!

  • Nick Thorsch · 1 year ago
    Hey Nick,

    This is actually a bug, seriously. My developers are working on figuring out the issue now. The Invite Friends page states
    "You’ve been given one credit for free. You need one credit to add a goal or project. Invite 20 friends earn another credit now to use later."

    The philosophy behind the design is that let's say you're at a mall. You see a store you like, you want to browse it first, then you find something you like, buy it, THEN you tell your friends. That's why the app is SUPPOSED to give one credit for free. So when this bug is fixed, I'll post here again to invite you and your readers to come back and try it again (without having to invite friends).

    To ensure that users have enough credits to fully try the system, I've asked my developers to give ALL existing and new users TWO free credits, so they can try both the goal and project systems. As always, the vision board has no restrictions.

    Thanks for understanding,
    Nick
  • Austin Hallock · 1 year ago
    Hey Nick, this is Austin the owner of Blogonize and I understand why you dislike the login limitation.

    How do you suggest I fix this that's a compromise for Facebook users and myself. Of course, I'd like to receive more users from the app itself but like I said, I understand where you're coming from.

    What do you think if I had it where any facebook user could add the app and get posting right away (or have the option to use their already made blogonize account). However for that post to actually show up on blogonize.com, they would have to link their account.

    Thanks,
    Austin
  • Nick O'Neill · 1 year ago
    Hi Austin,

    I think the easiest solution is to populate your database without email addresses so you have an associated user id. If they'd like more features to the application they can register. Otherwise provide a free version for the users. Shoot me an email if you'd like to chat further ... allfacebook [at] gmail [dot] com.

    Best,
    Nick
  • Nick Thorsch · 1 year ago
    Hi Nick,

    The bug is fixed. Thank you for alerting me that new users were not receiving the stated free credit. The credit system is about two weeks old, and while it was extensively tested by many people, no one noticed this single piece of the complex system. Now more users will get to discover the gems in the app thanks to you.


    As promised, all users will now have at least two credits to get to fully try the goal and project management systems before being asked to invite friends. If you like the app, it's much more interesting with friends as you can see their goals and support them or work on student projects together. So if users like the app enough to want to use it a third time, they invite 20 friends and instantly receive a credit.

    Now that there are free credits at the start of the app trial process, come try it out and discover for yourself why users love how the app is helping them to more efficiently and effectively achieve their goals and complete their projects.
    http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...

    Thanks,
    Nick
  • Joby John · 1 year ago
    I think facebook should handle the whole invitation process start to finish, it could be a section in the about page or there could be a link to a page outside the canvas page just like the apps about page. While revealing number of invitations sent out and such.