Facebook Says Changes to Application Accesibility in New Profile “Definitely Not Final”

September 10th, 2008

By Karl Bunyan

The changes to the new Facebook design that were rolled out last night, which changed the way applications are bookmarked and accessed have concerned developers today. Some developers have said that if they have trouble finding their own applications, how will users fare?

A few hours ago the Facebook Platform Team issued the following clarification:

Thanks a lot for your feedback. We’re still in progress of rolling out some features that make these even easier and make apps more discoverable and available on Facebook as well as easier to bookmark. We’re sorry about the confusion — we’re in the midst of finalizing the feature and what you see here is definitely not final! Expect it to be out very very soon, and hope you’ll be as excited as we are.

Thanks,

Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support

Developers will undoubtedly be glad and relieved to hear that news. We’ll see what takes place over the next few days.

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4 Responses to “Facebook Says Changes to Application Accesibility in New Profile “Definitely Not Final””

Monique Says:
September 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I’m glad that this isn’t the final iteration. I had just added a new app and wanted to go ahead and bookmark it and modify its privacy settings and couldn’t find it at all.

Then I realized what the trick is. Click on the applications to get the full list. The default is the bookmarked list. If the app is not bookmarked it will not show up in the default view. I switched over to the Added to Profile list and sure enough, there it was.

Just in case anyone else was in the same boat as me.
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September 10th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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Neill Kramer Says:
September 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
If Facebook is going with 8 apps in the list, they should color code the first 8 spaces when the user is in Edit mode.

And for re-arranging apps they should take a page from Netflix.
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