Cubing on Facebook

[anders]

Now people can see my crappy times.

Crappy times? Check mine

 

[Kian]

I like this idea very much. So often i get cubers request to add me and i don't know who they are. With this app, it will make it easier to just click the tab, click their profile link and see if i have been at a comp with them, or where about in the world they are based on past competitions, that sort of thing. I appreciate the work.

Is it hard being a celebrity?

 

[Lucas Garron]

With this app, it will make it easier to just click the tab, click their profile link and see if i have been at a comp with them

Hmm. Stefan, is it possible to show shared competitions when you visit the page of someone else with the app?

 

[megaminxwin]

Muhaha, not even Facebook can escape my cubing life!

BTW, how do you make an application?

 

[Chuck]

Your contributions always impress me. Thank you, Stefan.

 

[Mitch15]

awesome

 

[Sin-H]

gotta set this up when I get home from work.

 

[Laura O]

I'm not really using facebook (I log in every 3 month or so), but this app is really cool.
Thank you, Stefan!

 

[nathanajah]

It worked, thanks Stefan.
I think it would be better if you could add ranks.

EDIT: Oops, already asked.

 

[Raffael]

neat app, i like it.

 

[Zane_C]

That's cool.

 

[richardzhang]

Woah cool, too bad i dont have a WCA profile.

 

[Konsta]

Nice job! And thank you!

 

[Dave Campbell]

Is it hard being a celebrity?

The paparazzi can get annoying, but most of them are pretty respectful.

I think a lot of people go through the friends lists of other cubers and add anyone that has a profile pic holding a cube. Don't act like you don't get the same situation. The Barry Brothers are almost as big as the Jonas Brothers.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

It works great!

Hey...isn't that friend invite in the picture from ME? lol

 

[whauk]

at least you should include NR ER and WR. people shall know that i have one
really nice app

 

[Carson]

With this app, it will make it easier to just click the tab, click their profile link and see if i have been at a comp with them

Hmm. Stefan, is it possible to show shared competitions when you visit the page of someone else with the app?

I have no clue how Facebook apps work, or how hard this would be to implement... but this would be a very cool feature.

 

[Andreas737]

With this app, it will make it easier to just click the tab, click their profile link and see if i have been at a comp with them

Hmm. Stefan, is it possible to show shared competitions when you visit the page of someone else with the app?

"Mutual" Competitions, that would be awesome!

 

[Stefan]

With this app, it will make it easier to just click the tab, click their profile link and see if i have been at a comp with them

Hmm. Stefan, is it possible to show shared competitions when you visit the page of someone else with the app?

If I can ask the API for the visitor's facebook ID and if the visitor is using my app so I know the WCA ID, then yes. Don't know yet whether I can get the facebook ID, still learning the API. I'm not sure though how useful it will be for Dave's purpose, as he might not be able to see their cube tab unless he's already their friend. I'll make a little statistic about this later, how many non-friend users allow me to see their cube tab. But anyway, this is now on my todo list, thanks for the idea, guys.

BTW, how do you make an application?

Pretty easy. If I remember correctly, I did this:
1. Register as developer.
2. Register a new application.
3. Copy their PHP library and sample application to my webspace.
4. Small configuration of my app (name, location, ...)
Then I had a running application which I modified.

They had a nice one-page tutorial but apparently it's gone. Google "developers.facebook.com/get_started.php" and look at Google's cache of the page if you want to see it. But it might be better to look at the current documentation if you actually want to use it.

SCREENSHOT
Hey...isn't that friend invite in the picture from ME? lol

No idea. I got a facebook account a long time ago but then never really used it and ~230 friend requests piled up. Then I confirmed about 130 of them, people I actually know (some even actually my friends, woohoo!) or who I could see are cubers. But now my facebook home contains non-cubing stuff from people I don't know, and even "cuberIdontKnow and personIdontKnow are now friends" announcements which I really don't care about and which I can't even make the system hide. Thinking about "unfriending" some again in order to reduce the clutter. For now I've changed to only confirming people as "friends" who I actually know well. Don't want to offend anyone by not confirming their friend invite, I'd just prefer having only a few dozen "friends" I'm really familiar with rather than hundreds that I'm not really familiar with.

 

[Andreas737]

SCREENSHOT
Hey...isn't that friend invite in the picture from ME? lol

No idea. I got a facebook account a long time ago but then never really used it and ~230 friend requests piled up. Then I confirmed about 130 of them, people I actually know (some even actually my friends, woohoo!) or who I could see are cubers. But now my facebook home contains non-cubing stuff from people I don't know, and even "cuberIdontKnow and personIdontKnow are now friends" announcements which I really don't care about and which I can't even make the system hide. Thinking about "unfriending" some again in order to reduce the clutter. For now I've changed to only confirming people as "friends" who I actually know well. Don't want to offend anyone by not confirming their friend invite, I'd just prefer having only a few dozen "friends" I'm really familiar with rather than hundreds that I'm not really familiar with.

Instead of deleting friends to make the homepage less cluttered, you can just click "Hide" beside the person's name when they are on the homepage. But I understand your "friendly" views.