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Re:Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey by jobu on Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:10PM (#2874029)
The number one issue is documentation. (sparse and often incorrect).

The number two issue is they change the API and don't announce the changes until people start posting questions asking why something is failing.

Number three is random failures with no error. (Did they change the API again or is it just a random recurring event?)

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Re:Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey by wpietri on Thursday August 11, 2011 @07:33PM (#2875309)
Entrepreneurs! Take my money!

Let me publicly say something I've said privately: I will pay up to $1000/year for a subscription to a service that 1) documents the facebook APIs, 2) monitors examples and common usages and lets me know when they stop working, and 3) provides a weather report for the Facebook API servers letting me know when they're slow or sick.

Heck, I might pay more. We waste far too much developer time dealing with the problems Jobu so rightly points out.

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Re:Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey by micmcg on Thursday August 11, 2011 @07:43PM (#2875327)
Agreed. Every advertising agency that works with Facebook would happily pay a subscription fee like that for the number of head hours it would save them.
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Re:Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey by podperson on Thursday August 11, 2011 @04:08PM (#2874528)
Just the UI wrapped around app development is a nightmare. Even if the API were perfect, deploying apps would suck.
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Re:Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey by sofuture on Thursday August 11, 2011 @05:55PM (#2875006)
Ah-ha, but you can automate so much app management through the admin API. Oh wait, they deprecated and froze the only API that handled that!
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