Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

Since last Wednesday's update, we shared best practices for mobile login and clarified our policies.

Pages Insights Changes

Earlier this year we launched Global Pages, a new Pages structure for Pages with an international presence. In our December 19th update, we introduced two temporary fields (global_brand_like_count and global_brand_talking_about_count) so that Pages could continue to easily access country-level insights about their Pages after transitioning to this new structure. We stated that these would be live until January 19th 2013. As the January 19th date has now passed, we have removed the temporary fields.

Updated App Center Game Categories

We are introducing new and updated game categories to the App Center to make it easier for people to browse and find games. These changes to genres, such as breaking out "Action & Arcade" into two separate categories, are aimed at helping people find a variety of games and drive more traffic to developers with apps in the App Center. The games category will move to the top of the category list and be prominently displayed with games subcategories below it. We will continue to periodically update game genres to reflect the growing and diverse games ecosystem.

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 01/23/2013-01/30/2013

Bugs activity

• 261 bugs were created this week
• 82 were assigned this week
• 186 were resolved this week
• 37 were fixed this week
• 149 were were duplicate, invalid, or by design

Bugs fixed

• Paging with either "__after_id" or "offset" does not work for /user/mutualfriends
• application_installation_adds has wildly incorrect value
• create company "continue" does not respond in 4th screen
• sharer.php on Internet Explorer can't get image-thumb from Open Graph meta tag
• With offline_access Deprecation Enabled, Still Receiving 2 hour tokens from Server Side OAuth Call
• Stream is not being displayed in the Like Box widget in IE(7,8,9)
• activity feed layout if bugged
• Facebook login button doesn't work in Internet Explorer
• When i click like on Like box in IE 9 and I am not logged in it dissapers..
• Typo 'veiw'
• deprecate offline_access enabled; not all users issued long term access tokens
• Way, way out of date
• Typographical Error
• Insights stopped tracking notifications sent via api
• FB Bookmark's on mobile redirect to Native instead of Mobile Web
• Offline access deprecation, token exchange/extension not working for canvas apps
• pic_crop always sends wrong data
• Please correct datetime formats
• Duplicate OG Action error
• Ref not explained
• The API is returning null results for friends location
• Facebook Query Language call only returns data for first 64 users
• Error in example code
• SSL: certificate subject name 'm.facebook.com' does not match target host name 'graph.facebook.com
• Border color does not change for the Facebook like box
• Documentation for User is incorrect (installed attribute)
• Wrong link to the PHP SDK
• Application object doesn't have a events connection?
• generatepreviews returns OAuthException #2606
• Link points to internal Facebook URL
• Cannot confirm an application request
• When linking to a brand page from app to FB iOS app, taking to Newsfeed and not brand page
• Bug tool incorrectly says we only accept bugs in English
• Can't fetch opengraph comments in API
• Streams posted can not be found on the wall
• Error: "Custom Clusters not allowed with View tags"

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 321 questions asked
• 64 questions with a score of 0 or greater
• 31 answered, 48% answered rate
• 46 replied, 72% reply rate