DISQUS

AllFacebook: Facebook Continues to Make Big Changes

  • Charlie · 1 year ago
    > I’ve had developers who’s livelihood rely on the success of
    > their application contacting me to express how these new
    > changes will negatively impact their application.

    Serves them right for spamming the rest of us and (probably) ruining lots of opportunities for others. If their applications were good to begin with, they shouldn't have any trouble.
  • Adam · 1 year ago
    For about the last month, I haven't even been looking at the Application invites I've gotten. I've probably missed out on some good ones, but when you get 20 invites a day, you just don't have time. If invites go down, I'll probably install more apps.
  • John · 1 year ago
    Nick-

    These changes are great for apps that facillitate messaging and communication between facebook users, groups and events like our CircleUp app does at facebook. We've had to scramble like crazy to facillitate basic things like getting a tshirt order together for 60 people attending an event or matching up riders and drives for a group going on a snowboard trip.

    When group admins send out a circleup via a group message, everything is great, but if they are not an admin and have to use notifications, response rates are insanely low.

    So anything Facebook does to clean up the landscape will make it possible for truly useful apps to emerge. When we look at the clicks, it seems most people are ignoring notifications entirely.

    -john
  • Jesse F · 1 year ago
    As someone who is, at the moment, in a dead-on Rawlsian "Veil of Ignorance" situation—my app, which I personally think is nifty but who knows, was just added to the Directory—the recent changes fill me with unmitigated delight. Users are the point of Facebook, not Developers, and anything that helps users distinguish between apps that are useful to them and useless to them is a good thing. If my app had failed to attract a satisfying user base under the old system, I would have just shrugged and assumed that my app was indeed lost in the Library of Babel. Now, I will have to take it as a meaningful metric and hence a form of constructive criticism. Anyone who isn't looking for constructive criticism shouldn't be designing apps.