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Couple of quick things.

1) You don't need permission to post to my wall or get all of my information to sample my images. I, and others, will explicitly not try this specifically for this reason. Only request the minimum of what you need.

2) Your FB Connect implementation appears to be broken. Clicking on the http://profilecollage.appspot.com/auth/login takes the user to a mostly empty page with a FB image that you have to click into again, which then takes you to the authentication page.

3) Clicking 'dont allow' on the permissions request button just keeps circling back to the request page. This should redirect somewhere else.




I wish I could say this to each and every Facebook app developer.


Thanks for your feedback! The elevated permissions were for features we planned but didn't implement. We have since reverted to more restricted permissions.

I and my friends are busy studying for finals, but once we have a free moment we will get to fixing the other issues too. =)


I've only just begun to look at Facebook development but the Oauth part sounds like a cluster-f*ck in the making.

Even though I don't intend to be them, I sympathize with the developers who get it wrong because a hand-off from app-to-web-to-app-to-web on a poorly, inconsistent and changing platform looks hard.




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