Facebook Turns on Staging Server for Developers

May 19th, 2008

By Justin Smith

In a note to developers tonight, the Facebook Platform team announced that it has turned on www.beta.facebook.com a day in advance of tomorrow night’s weekly push in order to give developers a chance to bang around on the release candidate.

This could very well be the dev server for the upcoming profile redesign sandbox. In the very least, it’s a nice gesture by the team to increase the chances of finding bugs that could adversely affect developers before the update is pushed.

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3 Responses to “Facebook Turns on Staging Server for Developers”

Jesse Stay Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Shortly after the platform launch they started turning this on when a few launches went bad. They haven’t turned to it in awhile. I agree with you though – The resurfacing of this could very well be the makings of a staging server for the upcoming profile redesign.
David Says:
May 20th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Would be nice if they told us what the upcoming changes are so that we knew what to look for. I don’t really want to test everything in my app.
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