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Anyone else notice that even the clearest, most obvious bugs logged at the platform bug tracker tend to be closed out of hat, then moved to WISHLIST after you reopen them?

This feels a lot like police departments distorting crime statistics by recategorizing reports. I suspect the actual bug statistics for the Facebook platform are far higher than the ones they announce each week. And the ones they announce are terrible as it is.

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Developping on top of Facebook Platform is very unsettling : always moving, inconsistent, under-documented, poor libraries outside of python and PHP, at least 3 types of access to the same data (deprecated REST API, FQL queries and Graph API), etc. Yet you get their gigantic audience and unprecedented data at hand, which is thrilling. Developping for Facebook is almost a separate kind of programing, with its own set of rules.

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