Fosimo 0.9 is Available; Facebook Platform Unstable

Fosimo new version

Fosimo 0.9 is available. You can download it for free here (requires .NET Framework 2.0 or later). Fosimo is a Facebook desktop client for windows.

In this release:

• Overall fixes.
• Default status monitor interval increased to 15 minutes. This feature is configurable, however the change of the default setting comes as a result of fine tuning.
• Max 5 status updates shown at once. People with hundreds and even thousands of friends will usually have more than 5 friends status updates, however 5 is the number that fits the screen and readable at a glance.

Facebook platform on Decline

I just wanted to mention that I was kinda frustrated with the stability of Facebook platform during the last weeks. It is not stable at all - giving errors and timeouts and issues all over the platform. Developers already started to implement workarounds around some features that proved to be sensitive. The trouble is that application users just think that application is unstable or something.

Facebook applications statistics is half broken, application directory search does not work for new applications, etc. I have a strong feeling that their own arrogance would kill them. I'm in doubt that facebook people do really realize this, given the huge hype they get from the media. They fix only critical issues and don't care about "minor". On the other hand they do implement new features on the platform, many times breaking backward compatibility and introducing some weird stuff. Like "Facebook Javascript". WTF man ?

Sigh

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It was one of those pushes performed by Facebook last night. Facebook push is a weekly update usually performed by Facebook updating their production servers with new code, fixes and features. Apparently Facebook does not perform integration tests, therefore each push can break applications depending on the platform. Because of the fact that each push is performed too frequently without enough testing the platform became unstable [ ... ]