Dear Facebook,

Your f8 is quite an event,a code changing event. I was working on launching a "not so yet another" facebook app.The facebook API was in place; this was just another app tour which I was so familiar with.

And then f8 happened ...

The next day I opened my facebook page and wanted to rattle on some code on the dev console. Opened my bookmarks http://developer.facebook.com/tools.php ; Oopsie Daisy - Page not found. The Dev console has vanished. Soon I will access my data using the graph API and the social tools.

Am I complying to your plan? Was this your plan?

Being the epicenter of the social wave you surely can change the APIs overnight and developers would scrap their code and rewrite. Would developers do the same if there was a competing social network who took better care of their "contributors" ? Maybe not.

The documentation does state that the older APIs would be around till June 1, but after an app is launched and is a month old, would I go under the hood and take down a well oiled machine and try powering it up with a new API? Hell no! The clients do not care about the new APIs and nor do my users. So I will end up burning the candle at both ends and power it with your new APIs to avoid the trouble.

You could call me ill-informed, maybe I did not use Google, to the best of my abilities, to find out more in time about f8. No, I could not view the live web-cast of f8 because my darned internet was not up for a web-cast. The least you could do, is place a notice as you normally put up, when you launch a new feature, telling the developers that the console is going to be moved. A weeks notice would have been greatly appreciated.

The change was too sudden to go live with the APIs after f8. Maybe the apps could have been tried with the new APIs in a newapi.facebook.com sub-domain for a while. I'm sure you could have come up with far better ideas than these.

Things are a little inconsistent at the moment in this transition period. By the time they stabilize and developers feel happy about mastering the new facebook API would it be time for the next f8 ?

Your truly,

http://www.facebook.com/amythical