Comments on: 2 more Facebook Platform updates this week making it harder for developers

By: Virtual Goods Now Funding Most Development on the Facebook Platform

Virtual Goods Now Funding Most Development on the Facebook Platform — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:39:59 +0000

[...] 2007 will be remembered as the “wild west” for Facebook’s powerful application viral channels, and 2008 was the year that Facebook [...]

By: Dan Brown

Dan Brown — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:51:30 +0000

I was worried when i first checked this, so i went to my main app and checked the invite limit. It was 5.
Problem? I’m beginning to think not. My app ‘rewards’ invites, by letting users increase their points for every invite they make, but i would much rather this limit of 5 invites meant they thought about their friends who will actually ADD the app as a result of the invite and not just go and click everyone willy nilly.

By: What’s Forgotten With New Changes to Invites | Lonely CEO Media - Facebook Application Development and Consulting

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:46:57 +0000

[...] changes to invitations have sparked some interesting points (mainly that Facebook is punishing developers). We’ve already said that Facebook is doing what Ben Bernanke should- curbing inflation for [...]

By: Roundup: iPhone SKD rumors, Bischof at Meritech, and more » VentureBeat

Roundup: iPhone SKD rumors, Bischof at Meritech, and more » VentureBeat — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:12:32 +0000

[...] Meanwhile, Facebook continues to clamp down on spammy applications, to try to force application developers to only create apps that are good for users. It is reducing the number of invites a user can send friends for a given application, and it is making a “stop email” link appear above email messages sent via an application. More at Inside Facebook. [...]

By: ralph

ralph — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:48:19 +0000

top developers should be treating the user as an educated user and making invites difficult to get.

look at gmail, when it first came out people were dying to get an invite to gmail, and people only got 10 a day at first and gmail didn’t ask users to invite as many people as they could, only if they wanted to

now contrast that to the last facebook app that i received, where i had to invite AT LEAST 20 friends to the application JUST so i could find out the score of whatever test i had taken.

i used to think an app invite was because my friend thought it was a nifty app that i would be interested in. now people are just clicking my name randomly to fill up a queue just so the app can tell them how cool they are. it’s absolutely absurd.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:40:32 +0000

you sais, “this change will inevitably lead to a higher email unsubscribe rate than before, and for applications delivering quality emails, a poorer user experience.”

quality emails? you obviously don’t understand the app as a user, only a maker of things…getting off a list shouldn’t require tricks and excessive steps…it will not result in a poorer user experience, you must be kidding…

By: A gentle criticism of F8 — Alec Saunders .LOG

A gentle criticism of F8 — Alec Saunders .LOG — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:59:58 +0000

[...] Facebook reports on the recent changes made by Facebook in how developers can use "requests" and "notifi…. In principle, these are welcome changes designed to combat invitation spam, and when [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:52:30 +0000

what the hell are these “top developers” and a “quality applications” you talk about? there are over 17000 applications, 99.99% of them are crap/spam, 0.01% are novelty gimmicks.

By: ROb

ROb — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:29:36 +0000

This is not Facebook’s fault. It is the fault of all of the developers who took Facebook as their opportunity to start spamming in the old ways of the early internet.

Spam is a massive problem for Facebook and they are wise to stop it as quickly as they can.

By: Raj Lalwani

Raj Lalwani — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:49:05 +0000

The new Facebook restrictions on invitations and notifications are not only bad for apps which are good citizens, they are also bad for Facebook users! For example, we are not able to send notifications to recipients if a user writes a comment on their SocialCalendar. There are two problems with this – Facebook is restricting their own users (not just app developers) and the daily limit applies to the sender even if we have never sent even one message to the recipient.

I hope common sense prevails and Facebook does not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

SocialCalendar.com
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=8331309681