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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by positivecomment on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @10:42AM (#14497574)
My personal recommendation is to drop third-party logins and allow users to sign-up via usernames (without emails). That means you need to deal with "lost password with no way to recover" situations and spam but it's still better than third parties controlling the most important aspect of your application.
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by elandybarr on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:17PM (#14499627)
PLEASE PLEASE have a non-FB option.

I got added by someone else to a Facebook group that eventually went on a troll raid. I rarely go on Facebook and didn't even participate in any troll raids. Just from being in the group, my account was disabled. I have been locked out of my apps for three weeks and Facebook hasn't answered any appeal I sent them.

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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by codewritinfool on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @11:14AM (#14497849)
I actively avoid sites that offer only FB logins.
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by HeavyStorm on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:39PM (#14501620)
I've deleted my FB and have no desire to recover it. Any service that's FB only can count me out.

(yeah, I can create a dummy account for that purpose alone, but I rather not bother)

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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by robinhood on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @10:51AM (#14497643)
Exactly. Excellent point. Moreover, you can't import any of your Facebook contacts anyway, so it's pretty pointless, and I hate relying on third parties.
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by tyingq on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @10:49AM (#14497626)
FB integration, though, might be nice for initial import of friend data that's already there.
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by robinhood on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @11:01AM (#14497735)
You can't import ANY data from your friends from Facebook. Facebook doesn't allow to.
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by erik-g on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:26PM (#14500378)
That's true, but you can see if any of your FB friends are also using the same service! 'Importing' isn't ok, but verifying via API is ok.[0]

[0]: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/common-scenar...

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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:20PM (#14499013)
Damn. That's not surprising, but it is disappointing.
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by sogen on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:27PM (#14498498)
Really?!
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by confounded on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:49PM (#14501709)
This has been the case for many years.
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by tyingq on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:50PM (#14502173)
Looks like about 2 years. https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/
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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by sogen on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:50AM (#14576128)
Oh, wow, walled garden indeed
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