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Comment by chrisblizzard | Hacker News Reader

Hi. I work at Facebook. We're working on restoring the set of apps that were accidentally disabled. Many of them are back, some are still in process. (As people have pointed on the thread.)

Sorry about this. We clearly made a mistake.

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Hey Chris, appreciate your participation here and on SO.

Are you at liberty to provide more insight? I'm really curious to know why some (and not all) accounts were affected.

I don't know the root cause, nor how many apps were affected.

Edit: Sorry, don't mean to sound evasive here. I just don't want to provide incorrect data.

(I also work at Facebook) We have systems that block spammy apps that are 99.9% of the time really incredibly sophisticated and get a ~0% false positive rate.

This is a case of the 0.1%. :( Folks here are scrambling to undo this. Very, very sorry. Things should now (17:47 PT) be all set. Please do comment on the bug link if you're still having issues.

Still can't see a few of my apps - App ID: 152351391599356

[nod] We'll look into it. Please follow / comment on the bug thread at https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/702273849788774

Can you check again? We think that we've got them all, but I want to verify that it's still missing.

Yep. It's back.

This one should be fixed - thanks for passing it on!

Any chance you can look at restoring 309852345803454. I lost 4 apps but this is the most important one as it's integrated with an iOS app in the app store so I can't just create a new app and carry on as I've done for the other apps.

I'll add it to the list for sure. Can you verify that it's still missing?

Fixed! Thanks!

Also, what were the other App IDs?

588613334503218 531241493603547

The other one doesn't matter as it was only for development and has been recreated.

These should now be restored. Can you double check for us?

Yes, they are restored. Thanks for fixing this for us.

This one should be fixed. Thanks for passing it on!

Could you take a look at 641670749179788 as well? The page tab works fine but the canvas URL redirects to 4oh4.php. Thanks!

Hi! We fixed some more stuff last night. Can you check and see if this one has been fixed or if you're still having issues with it?

Yep thanks, everything looks fine again!

Could you please look at my other comment in this topic? I'd be very grateful if you could help me.

Thanks for being so quick to respond

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