I don’t understand the rational behind the new Facebook Apps. Users no longer ‘Add’ or ‘Remove’ apps. Instead a user is asked to ‘authorize’ the app, allowing it access to profile info etc.
This is a real pain in the ass.
Before we used a script (post-add) which would add the user to the database, create an account, and all the other housekeeping. That’s gone. Now I have to add users to the database at a few strategic locations instead. Not a hard to do, but it muddles up things. To boot, there’s no more ‘post-remove’ link. This means I have no idea when a user removes the application. My DB swells, my metrics are unreliable, and a lot of issues are created. Again, frustrating.
The facebook app settings page is a mess of old style config and new style config. Annoying.
But easily the worst move on facebook’s move was breaking stats. How could they release this new style without stats? Word on the street is that they are ‘working on it.’ But really that’s unacceptable.
I’m sure this will be sorted out soon… But we really need some documentation / explanation of the new rational. It’s hard to launch an app when you don’t know what ‘version’ of facebook your users are using. This is incredibly bad timing.
