Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

Improved support for age-sensitive content

We’re making it easier for mobile apps and websites that use Facebook Login to restrict their content to people age 18+ and 21+. Age range has long been available for apps on Facebook.com as part of the signed request, but we’re now also making it accessible via the Graph API for all users that install your app. Apps that require users' birthdays to gate age-sensitive content can increase their install rates by using this new age_range field instead. For example, for a user who is 19 years old, you would get back:

  "age_range": {
    "max": 20,
    "min": 18,
    },
    

Developer Alerts contact settings

We've updated the Developer Contact Settings to allow you to configure your Alerts. You can now select which types of Alerts can send you Facebook Notifications and emails.

New ad policy

On Tuesday, January 15th, we implemented a new ad policy that limits text overlay to 20% of the image for all ads in News Feed, including mobile app install ads. Our goal is to increase the quality of ads in News Feed by replacing text with photos and images that are more engaging to users. Please see our Ad Guidelines and Help Center for more information.

Upcoming breaking changes

As announced in November, the following changes will go into effect on February 6th, 2013:

• End of custom actions for content consumption
• Authenticated referrals going away
• Create_event permission required to remove attendees from event
• Minor change to admin.getAppProperties call
• Canonical URLs used when fetching Open Graph objects
• Offset no longer allowed when searching posts
• Curly bracket syntax for mentioning users in notifications going away
• Removing ability to post to friends walls via Graph API
• Picture connection/field may return a dictionary

Check out the Developer Roadmap for all updates on breaking changes.

Weekly stats

The following stats are for activity between January 16th, 2013 to January 23rd, 2013:

Bugs activity

• 238 bugs were reported
• 97 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed)
• 26 bugs were by design
• 43 bugs were fixed
• 121 bugs were duplicate, invalid, or need more information

Bugs fixed

• Error in the description of Computing prices in your storefront
• Facebook login hangs at “XD Proxy” when page is installed via Chrome Web Store
• Please change "payments_update_status" to "payments_status_update"
• Facebook edge.create event not firing on like box
• Facebook like on application, overlay is invisible and stays on top
• installed=1 parameter no longer sent after user authenticates application.
• Direct URL example link throws an error.
• App "Play" button broken in Facebook mobile app on IOS
• FQL stream not returning all posts
• Conversion Pixel ID Typo
• Create App button does nothing when clicked
• Like button resolves to wrong URL
• Out of date link to php sdk
• Page is blank: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ios
• Typo error
• FB (debug) SDK: Unexpected token (
• Facebook Login leads to 404
• typo in Prerequisites, and language for submitting bugs
• grammatical error.
• There's a stray ?> in the code example
• Activity and Share widget resize issue
• Like buttons cause memory leaks in IE7
• Subscribe button has improper grammer at 0 subscriptions
• Registration plugin: Invalid 'client_id' when user logs in/out from Facebook
• box_count en_US makes 1200 likes into 1,2k but when pt_PT goes to 1,2 000
• Apps Disabled
• request_ids parameter not present in the target_url
• The texte for the link to the ISO standard is wrong (concerning DateTime)
• Wrong URL in "Examples of Supported Objects" section
• app post audience not saved through OAuth login dialog
• is url in table url_like indexable?
• Cannot clear website_url application property via API to turn off Connect
• page_id is not indexable
• dark color sheme does not work
• The like box background is no longer transparent for some users
• iOS App details page empty
• Broken link

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 276 questions asked
• 76 questions with a score of 0 or greater
• 27 answered, 36% answered rate
• 50 replied, 66% reply rate