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Facebook gave me 6 days to update my app and kicked me right before Christmas

55 points by Fizzer 4y ago

Fizzer 4y ago
Facebook disabled the ability for my customers to sign into my app via their Facebook account. They had given me six days to add a Privacy Policy button into my app (my website has it, and my app's metadata has it, but apparently they require a button in the app UI itself, which I didn't have). I told them I would add it, but I needed more time, as getting an app update out with only 6 days notice the week before Christmas is impossible (I have 5 apps that use Facebook login across 3 app stores, iOS/Android/Amazon). They told me I could request an extension, which I did do multiple times, but the extension was not granted.
- tosc 4y ago
  Facebook believes in the future, not outdated notions like Christmas. Joking aside, sorry this happened to you. These kind of inhumane policy do nothing but create stress.
  - yazzku 4y ago
    Sounds like OP needs to move fast and break things. Christmas and family if need be.
    - blitzar 4y ago
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      - AA-BA-94-2A-56 4y ago
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- garganzol 4y ago
  Don't mess with walled garden gangs. They have no soul, they have no mercy. The sole purpose of your existence is to serve their interests. But they won't tell.
- nostromo177 4y ago
AlexThrowAway 4y ago
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cheapcheap 4y ago
no good comes from integrating an app with facebook.
jscheel 4y ago
We recently needed to apply for advanced access to more permission scopes on our Facebook app. It was an absolute nightmare. Between the out of date documentation, undocumented requirements, arbitrary rejections based on reviewer-side issues like network outages and php errors on Facebook’s internal testing platform, and me having to literally train their app reviewers on the new login flow meta built for instagram business login, I had quite the stressful week.
T3RMINATED 4y ago
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yummypaint 4y ago
So I plan to completely remove the Facebook sign in option from the website and app. The solution to a completely avoidable problem. Anyone who interacts with facebook these days, whether as a customer or as a mark, deserves whatever befalls them.

55 points by Fizzer 4y ago

Facebook disabled the ability for my customers to sign into my app via their Facebook account. They had given me six days to add a Privacy Policy button into my app (my website has it, and my app's metadata has it, but apparently they require a button in the app UI itself, which I didn't have). I told them I would add it, but I needed more time, as getting an app update out with only 6 days notice the week before Christmas is impossible (I have 5 apps that use Facebook login across 3 app stores, iOS/Android/Amazon). They told me I could request an extension, which I did do multiple times, but the extension was not granted.

tosc 4y ago
Facebook believes in the future, not outdated notions like Christmas. Joking aside, sorry this happened to you. These kind of inhumane policy do nothing but create stress.
- yazzku 4y ago
  Sounds like OP needs to move fast and break things. Christmas and family if need be.
  - blitzar 4y ago
    [flagged]
    - AA-BA-94-2A-56 4y ago
      [flagged]
garganzol 4y ago
Don't mess with walled garden gangs. They have no soul, they have no mercy. The sole purpose of your existence is to serve their interests. But they won't tell.
nostromo177 4y ago

AlexThrowAway 4y ago

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cheapcheap 4y ago

no good comes from integrating an app with facebook.

jscheel 4y ago

We recently needed to apply for advanced access to more permission scopes on our Facebook app. It was an absolute nightmare. Between the out of date documentation, undocumented requirements, arbitrary rejections based on reviewer-side issues like network outages and php errors on Facebook’s internal testing platform, and me having to literally train their app reviewers on the new login flow meta built for instagram business login, I had quite the stressful week.

T3RMINATED 4y ago

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yummypaint 4y ago

So I plan to completely remove the Facebook sign in option from the website and app. The solution to a completely avoidable problem. Anyone who interacts with facebook these days, whether as a customer or as a mark, deserves whatever befalls them.