Comments on: Fb Explorer 1.0.7

By: The Staff

The Staff — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:23:04 +0000

Ayen, make sure you have the latest version of the gadget and restart the sidebar just in case that’s causing a problem. When you click connect, it should be able to open up a browser window allowing you to login into Facebook and apply permissions to the app so that when you get through to our site, all you’ll have to do is click next on the gadget to make it work. There are no codes involved that a user has to input aside form their username and password in the process.

By: ayen

ayen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:47:03 +0000

I downloaded your gadget and then I tried to authenticate it, but nothing happens when I click connect. I dont know how or where to put the code. How do I connect it to my account?

By: The Staff

The Staff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:51:59 +0000

AJ, the new upgrade we’re working on does default filtering of the stream by newsfeed (what you see on your Facebook homepage), in the future we’ll add in more sorts, but for the moment, this should give people a much better experience with the friend activity feed. We’re still hoping to get it into public beta this week, though that will depend on Facebook getting their API scaling issues fixed in a timely manner.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:16:12 +0000

I agree with an earlier post, it’s an awesome tool but I’d rather it only pull the posts from your selected filter rather than everything that flows in from the main news-feed filter. I don’t mind it showing me my friends junk posts from games they are playing, but I would prefer it not show me pots from people who I have filtered out of my home page by use of friends lists. (i.e. On my home page I’m showing posts from a selected friends list, not posts in the news-feed filter which is the default.)

Maybe allow the user to select which of their filters they wish to view? Or just use the same one that facebook uses on your home page.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:44:52 +0000

Got it to work finally, i might have just been getting a slow facebook server as well which was adding to the problem

By: The Staff

The Staff — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:18:54 +0000

Josh, we realize the login system on the gadget sucks and are currently taking steps to rectify it for the next gadget (which we’re still hoping will head into open beta this week, or early next week at the latest). The next version will use Facebook connect and if all goes according to plan, you’ll never have to enter in another code to get it working again.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:23:11 +0000

I am having a lot of trouble with getting this gadget working. Ever since i installed the app and clicked on the first page of it “1. Click here to generate login code”, when it goes to my facebook page it all just comes up as text on the left hand side of the page. I thought it was just my internet at first but no other page does it. I’ve tried using a different browser too and only facebook does this and because the page does not load properly for me it does not generate the code. Please help (fyi i’m using Windows Vista)

By: The Staff

The Staff — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:29:07 +0000

Marcia, we’re working on a big update for the Fb Explorer that will have a much improved login system that should hopefully be able to fix this issue.

By: Marcia

Marcia — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:38:09 +0000

When I was using this gadget on my Vista os it worked great and anytime I clicked on it my home page loaded. Got Windows 7 installed and have added this gadget again but now everytime I click to open it I have to sign in to Facebook. How do I get it to remember the sign in and just go straight to my home page? Love this gadget by the way…

By: Alfonso

Alfonso — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:01:17 +0000

I appreciate your help but I already fixed it. What I needed to do was set an association file for the gadget via the control panel.

Thanks