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pnm
Posted on: Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:59 am
Posts: 3304 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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drop Facebook ?
Given recent developments, how do people feel about dropping support for Facebook login on the site?
Patrick
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paulv66
Posted on: Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:30 am
Posts: 959 Location: Ukraine Joined: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:03 pm
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Re: drop Facebook ?
pnm wrote: Given recent developments, how do people feel about dropping support for Facebook login on the site?
Patrick I've never used the Facebook login option, so it wouldn't affect me. But I can understand why you might want to drop it.
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pnm
Posted on: Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:39 am
Posts: 3304 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: drop Facebook ?
paulv66 wrote: I've never used the Facebook login option, so it wouldn't affect me. But I can understand why you might want to drop it. Yes. Some of the reasons are: - enormous development overhead (especially in the beginning dealing with their API (programming interface) and documentation was a nightmare) - keeping up with API changes - having to use a different ad provider (only from a list of "approved providers", which does not include Google of course). The revenue from the approved provider I use is about $10 a year - having to have a Facebook account myself for this - ...
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beaker
Posted on: Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:43 am
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Re: drop Facebook ?
I too have never used facebook, so no problem with its deletion!!
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sjs34
Posted on: Mon Mar 26, 2018 12:48 pm
Posts: 276 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:51 pm
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Re: drop Facebook ?
I have never signed up for or used Facebook. The political and responsible company factors should also be mentioned and considered. Personally, I support dropping it. On the other hand, I would be inclined to defer to a minority that likes it if that group exists significantly enough to discount the practical factors.
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eclipsegirl
Posted on: Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:16 pm
Posts: 692 Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:20 pm
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Re: drop Facebook ?
I never use FB sign in for anything.
Can you tell if there are users who do use FB to sign in? If so, how many?
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pnm
Posted on: Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:40 pm
Posts: 3304 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: drop Facebook ?
eclipsegirl wrote: Can you tell if there are users who do use FB to sign in? If so, how many? about 3 - 3.5 % of all puzzles solved in a day are solved via Facebook (same percentage via Google+, by the way)
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eclipsegirl
Posted on: Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:49 pm
Posts: 692 Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:20 pm
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Re: drop Facebook ?
Of that 3 - 3.5%, can you tell how many are subscribers?
Would it be a hardship to you if you lost every FB subsciber? I doubt that would happen, but it is the worse case scenario.
Having never used FB, and always signing in via email, I know how to access my account. I assume that you have everyone's email, even if they choose to signin via FB, so their account would not be lost.
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pnm
Posted on: Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:35 am
Posts: 3304 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: drop Facebook ?
Time to move on this issue too.. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/3 ... eaked-memoIt's inertia really, it'll take quite some effort to remove/transfer
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