We are now fully fabEE’d up and other news!
First things first, apologies for the lack of updates. We have not been able to devote much time to fabEE development over the last few months. However, we definitely haven’t given up and progress, albeit slow, is being made. To that end this site is now fabEE’d up for blog commenting. You should be able to sign in with your Facebook credentials and if you do you should have the option to cross post your comment (with additional commentary) to your Facebook stream (not just your wall as was the case with the test we did in April).
If you helped out with the data test we did in April you may remember that fabEE was pretty slow really. We’ve refactored a lot of stuff and done a lot of testing against the Facebook API – some of which is rather depressing. Anyway, we’ve significantly reduced the overhead before being able to render the template with fabEE user data. Hopefully this will make it more usable.
In other news we’ve had time to sit down and think about what we are going to do with fabEE in the EE 1.6 branch and EE2.0. We have decided that further feature development on the 1.6 branch version of fabEE will effectively cease. We will still release it but it will be at a reduced cost since it will be limited to blog commenting and will not interface properly with the forum module or the member templates. This is because there are too many significant obstacles to overcome to make it cost effective for us to work on and make it easy enough to install and maintain for non-developers. So, apart from final tweaks and documentation and then the inevitable bug-fixing we shall be concentrating all our efforts on EE2.0 when it is released.
Lastly, we finally got around to sorting out an RSS feed!
Comments
bummer
Dave Jennings
1 September, 2009
Interesting concept - I like it!
Greg Salt
1 September, 2009
@Nathan
Yeah, I think you’re probably right. However, it’s a decision that has not been taken lightly. As you know, the themes are quite difficult to override without direct intervention and that is where the problem lies for the 1.6 branch. In any event, the goal is to make SSO and cross-posting as seamless and quick as possible for both 1.6 and 2.x
Nick Gendler
1 September, 2009
I think I like this. Looking forward to seeing it go live.
Nick Gendler
1 September, 2009
Test post to see if it goes to my facebook feed.
Greg Salt
1 September, 2009
@Nick,
Don’t forget that you have to click ‘Publish’ in the dialog that appears after you have submitted a comment.
Dom Pannell
2 September, 2009
fabEE looks like a useful way to make Facebook more relevant - if it works, I MIGHT even start using FB again!
Nikki Pilkington
2 September, 2009
Testing again
Sally Everitt
2 September, 2009
Ooo, looks good, let’s see if it works ...
Andy Fairgrieve
2 September, 2009
I’m only doing this ‘cos Rachie said to. Nikkers will explain it to me one day
Andy Fairgrieve
2 September, 2009
I’ll try that again
Dave Jennings
2 September, 2009
So, this will appear in my FB feed eh? Nice.
Andy Fairgrieve
2 September, 2009
and another go - it’s all going to arrive at once and make me look like a twat - it’s an elaborate practical joke isn’t it Rachie
the lobster
2 September, 2009
trying a second test.
Rob Edwards
2 September, 2009
third test
Rob Edwards
2 September, 2009
fourth
Stephen Ackroyd
2 September, 2009
Testing ahoy!
Rob Fletcher
3 September, 2009
FabEE looks like its going to be interesting.
J Peter Murmann
4 September, 2009
I hope FabEE for 2.0 will come out quickly.
Greg Salt
4 September, 2009
I’m still working on some clean up for 1.x branch. The next step will be to initiate a public beta for this version with this minimal functionality.
Gabriela Abrudan
4 January, 2010
this looks great. can’t wait to try it.
Greg Salt
4 January, 2010
@Gabriela,
fabEE is now available in our store at http://www.purple-dogfish.co.uk/buy-stuff/fabee.
Annette Atkinson Abbott
14 February, 2010
Hmmm…
Deciding if this is something I’d like to add to my site.
Hmmmmm….....
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