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or without telling them which application they're talking about!

This is awesome news! Facebook has finally done something to actually "Enhance the user experience".

Tonight's push is going to be interesting!

Finally.  I wonder how long it will be before users start trusting invitations again.

yessss...i wanted this to come as sometimes u are just frustrated as it wont go ahead unless u invite which is unfair, there is always this thing that it will come sooner or later if you violate things

Although we don't comment on individual developer communications, generally speaking sometimes a moratorium is necessary not to be punitive, but as a technical limitation to protect users while developers adjust an application.

Facebook will be talking more about policy enhancements in the coming days;  in the meantime, developers may want to check out the new Developers Wiki Platform Policy page.

Thanks,

Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support

Sorry for the bad timing.  It was working a short time ago!  We're fixing it now....

Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support

Also if I have a condensed multi-friend select form, which does not have a 'skip' button, why am I being punished as well?

Suupala wrote:

On behalf of myself and a vast amount of other people who have actively fought against force invites spoiling the system for recommendations: I'm so happy!

Yep, the biggest wall stopping the development of serious apps finally goes down

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can i still take my users on a merry go round ? can i take them to another app (see Polar Bear - dev company)
--- wherein the About page --- woa, is a link to another app ---

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man, .... hey jesse *farmer*, it would be awesome if you can put a marker down for today and have Adonomics show us how it affects DAU. it would kill spamminess but to what extent it affects the big players vs. the small players' apps.

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chris d: the list you sent me, there's no app for it out there is it? cos im about done with mine.

gat89 wrote:

This has to be a joke, I don't think Facebook would do this without telling developers....

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Dear developer,

Your application has been temporarily restricted from using requests/invites.  This is because users of your application get trapped in a UI interaction for inviting friends.

If the user clicks the Facebook-rendered buttons “Skip� , “Cancel� , or “Skip This Step� , he must not be re-presented with an invite friends UI unless he explicitly selects to invite friends from a page that offers more than that single option.  If you use another UI that does not have one of these buttons rendered by Facebook, the application must offer some other navigation option to leave the invite friends process, and the user must not be re-presented with an invite friends UI unless he explicitly selects to invite friends from a page that offers more than that single option.

If you correct this aspect of your application, the moratorium will be lifted.  Please respond to this email once you have made the necessary changes and please include your application id for verification purposes.

If you wish to correspond, please reply to this message.

Thank you,

Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support

http://apps.facebook.com/reportabuse

to celebrate the event