Cubing on Facebook

[Stefan]

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.

Ah, yes, right. See, that's the reason I didn't delete any yet - I'm still not quite familiar with the system and can imagine there are better solutions than deleting. Thanks. Ideally, there'd also be something additional to "friends", like "hobby-sharer", so I wouldn't have to abuse and devaluate the word "friend" just to connect to people I'd like to connecto to but who are not really my friends.

 

[joey]

You can make friends lists.

 

[Toad]

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.

Ah, yes, right. See, that's the reason I didn't delete any yet - I'm still not quite familiar with the system and can imagine there are better solutions than deleting. Thanks. Ideally, there'd also be something additional to "friends", like "hobby-sharer", so I wouldn't have to abuse and devaluate the word "friend" just to connect to people I'd like to connecto to but who are not really my friends.

You can create friend groups but I don't think you can control anything between them, just a way to categorise people...

 

[Stefan]

Thanks. I've seen lists/groups but just didn't have the time to look into these things, too busy working on other stuff. Like the app . Will learn more about being a facebook user later.

 

[pjk]

Nice, Stefan. How long did this take you to make (the app itself, not necessarily the graphics)?

 

[Toad]

Very nice and simple app. Would certainly be worth putting NR, CR and WR rankings in though as at the moment those numbers won't mean anything to non-cubers.

 

[AvGalen]

I think FaceBook needs a "like" option for apps, and a "like" option for Stefan Pochmann.
Thanks for pointing me to this one Charlie.
And thanks for creating and supporting the app Stefan. Your work is well thought out and implemented as always and I really appreciate that quality

 

[Bryan]

You can create friend groups but I don't think you can control anything between them, just a way to categorise people...

Yes you can. You can control what groups can see what. I get people that add me even if they've never been to a competition.

 

[Toad]

You can create friend groups but I don't think you can control anything between them, just a way to categorise people...

Yes you can. You can control what groups can see what. I get people that add me even if they've never been to a competition.

Oh that's cool, didn't realise that!!

And I'm probably one of the people on your "don't know these" list

 

[Stefan]

Nice, Stefan. How long did this take you to make (the app itself, not necessarily the graphics)?

Hard to say. Much of the time was for finding out how to get certain things done at facebook, and I didn't do it in one session but spread over several days. Let's say 10 hours, plus or minus a few hours

I think FaceBook needs a "like" option for apps

You can actually do that here:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=110700882282434

On the top I just saw this:

Introducing the Like button

Starting today people will be able to connect with your Page by clicking “Like” rather than “Become a Fan.” We hope this action will feel much more lightweight, and that it will increase the number of connections made across the site. Learn more.

 

[Lars Petrus]

"cuberIdontKnow and personIdontKnow are now friends" announcements which I really don't care about and which I can't even make the system hide.

There used to be a setting for that, but I can't find it anymore. Gave up after 10 minutes.

 

[dunpeal2064]

Not sure if this was asked, but I didnt see it while skimming through this.

About how often will the page update?

also, this is the only app im using on facebook. lol. finally found one i like

 

[Stefan]

About how often will the page update?

It checks the WCA export once a day, and that gets updated a few times a week, usually after a competition weekend. It's mostly automated, I don't have to do anything and Ron just needs one click in the WCA admin backend.

 

[Slash]

very nice app!
and +1 for displaying NR/CR/WR if possible (I think it is but I don't know much about facebook apps)

 

[Ms. McFly]

I'm really looking forward to when you figure out how we can add our personal best to the list =)

 

[AvGalen]

Nice, Stefan. How long did this take you to make (the app itself, not necessarily the graphics)?

Hard to say. Much of the time was for finding out how to get certain things done at facebook, and I didn't do it in one session but spread over several days. Let's say 10 hours, plus or minus a few hours

I think FaceBook needs a "like" option for apps

You can actually do that here:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=110700882282434

On the top I just saw this:

Introducing the Like button

Starting today people will be able to connect with your Page by clicking “Like” rather than “Become a Fan.” We hope this action will feel much more lightweight, and that it will increase the number of connections made across the site. Learn more.

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=110700882282434 gave me This web page is not available.

The web page at null might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

I will investigate how to do this after getting some sleep. And maybe the error will be gone by then

 

[Lofty]

Nice little App Stefan!
The confusion on searching for it is because it says Cube only on the drop down list so we try to search for cube but really its Speedcube that we have to search for. Not a big deal tho, you want to keep the name in the tab short but have to have the actual name long.
I don't know if this has been suggested yet but maybe you can add a second box that looks exactly the same but displays user imputable times? That way we could display our official bests and our unofficial bests. Not a big deal tho as unofficial times aren't very important.
+1 for displaying the world ranking to show off.

 

[Stefan]

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=110700882282434 gave me This web page is not available.

Hmm, it has and does work for me, and I didn't do anything with it. Maybe temporary facebook failure. If it still doesn't work for you, go to http://apps.facebook.com/speedcube/ and click "speedcube" on the very bottom of the page.

maybe you can add a second box that looks exactly the same but displays user imputable times? That way we could display our official bests and our unofficial bests.

Yes, that's on my todo list. I'd prefer the records to come from speedcubing.com, will have to talk about this with Ron again (getting them up to date and running, and then exporting). I'm already working on something similar, though.

And: woohoo, 200 users now . At least that's the number of entries in my database now, the application profile page says "165 monthly active users". That might mean how many people actually added it to their profile.

 

[Micael]

It works fine. Thanks.

 

[JBCM627]

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=110700882282434 gave me This web page is not available.

Hmm, it has and does work for me, and I didn't do anything with it. Maybe temporary facebook failure.

Happened for me too. But after hitting FB's home page, it worked. Cool