[Facebooker-talk] Facebook Test Accounts

[Christopher Bailey]

Actually, even FB's docs essentially indicate that that is ok, and that
designating it a test account is more of a way of ensuring your account
won't get nuked for reasons they deem ungood(tm!).

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:10 PM, BJ Clark <bjclark at scidept.com> wrote:

> You guys didn't hear this from me, but you can just make fake users that
> aren't "test" users.Turns out, with like, however millions of people, a
> few can sneak by.
>
> Just don't create hundreds or thousands to inflate your install #s.
>
> BJ Clark
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2008, at 7:33 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
>
> The key to it (I wrote the below referenced blog entry), is to add the app
> to the test accounts before they are test accounts.  But, honestly, things
> on FB may have changed since I wrote that (yes, they change fast!).  What I
> found was, I add my app to my "regular" FB account.  I set it so only devs
> can see it, etc.  I then make some "test" accounts, but don't actually use
> the URL that makes them a test account yet.  I then have all of them add the
> app (make those test accounts developers of the app first).  Finally, when
> that's all set up, you can make them test accounts.
> The whole test user thing on FB is pretty bad, actually, it's terrible to
> be honest.  They put all sorts of limits and weird behaviors on it, and it
> makes it hard to use, as well as makes it far less useful because you can't
> interact with those accounts as well.
>
> NOte, if you already made test accounts, you can "undo" that by removing
> them from the test group/network (can't recall precisely).  So, if you need,
> undo them, then add the app, then make them test accounts again.
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Dustin Anderson <dkanderson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I apologize if this isn't relevant necessarily to facebooker, but I'm
> > trying to figure out what everyone is using as a best practice for
> > setting up test apps & test accounts.
> >
> > Basic question - how can I use Facebook test user accounts to add an
> > app that is in Developer Mode (the box is checked in the App Settings
> > that says "Check this box to only allow developers of the application
> > to install the application.")?
> >
> > I followed the instructions from this post:
> >
> > http://codeintensity.blogspot.com/2008/02/testing-facebook-applications-with-test.html
> >
> > And it didn't work... the application disappeared completely from the
> > original owner's "My Apps" listings after adding the test user as a
> > developer and changing the test user to be in the Facebook Test Users
> > Network.
> >
> > The wiki (
> > http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php?title=Test_Accounts)
> > has a ton of complaints about this problem - with seemingly no
> > resolution, but I'm wondering if anyone has figured it out... or if
> > I'm missing something.
> >
> > Do I have to develop an app in non-Developer Mode if I want to use
> > test accounts?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Dustin
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