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Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by intrasight on Thursday February 01, 2018 @12:33AM (#16279810)
I like FB less and less - for all the same reasons that others here have posted. It is especially frustrating and vexing to me because I had build a "Facebook clone" about fifteen years ago that had all the features that I would like to have in a social/informational web service. Surely there are other places we can go online that have a better user experience. I am curious what other web sites people are using to do social blogging. Alternatively, are there any good "Facebook skins" (web clients built against the FB APIs) that provide a better user experience?
Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by iaml on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:42AM (#16280587)
There are some clients for mobile devices, but I'm pretty sure if anyone were to make such a skin, and it were to gain any meaningful popularity, facebook would just kill its API access or threaten with legal repercussions because its explicitly forbidden to do this [0].

[0] https://developers.facebook.com/policy

Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by intrasight on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:21PM (#16286030)
Lots of stuff there. Which one says you can't use the API to build a read-only client? Makes no sense that they would have an API for something which is forbidden.
Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by iaml on Friday February 02, 2018 @09:14AM (#16290608)
4.1 Add something unique to the community. Don’t replicate core functionality that Facebook already provides. 4.4 Respect the limits we've placed on Facebook functionality.

Read-only client violates 4.1, as it replicates news feed. Changing how news feed is formed is a violation of 4.4.

Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by intrasight on Monday February 05, 2018 @11:43PM (#16314489)
But it doesn't "replicate" the newsfeed because the newsfeed doesn't show me what I want to see.
Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by Jaruzel on Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:38AM (#16281116)
The current version of the FB API doesn't allow posting. So any third party app would be read-only.

Earlier API versions used to allow posting, but of course they took it out.