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• Version 0.11: Facebook authentication works again

  Release Osx Linux Windows Facebook September 09, 2019

  Ah, Facebook! It’s a never-ending stream of changes to their authentication protocol, which loves deviating from the standard OAuth 2.0 specification in the most unpredictable ways!

  

  Anyway, the good news is that I’ve just released PhotoTeleport 0.11, which should fix a recent issue with the Facebook authentication not working: I won’t bother you with the technical details, but it suffices to say that they don’t even follow their own documentation (and for the technical ones: FB silently changed their callback URL to https://web.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html — note: it’s web, not www!).

  There are no other changes in this release, so, unless you are publishing to Facebook, there’s really no need for you to download this!

• Facebook announced API restrictions

  Facebook May 01, 2018

  A few days ago Facebook announced quite harsh restrictions on its publishing APIs: if we take the announcement to the letter, it means that publishing photos (and generally, any kind of content) from a desktop application will become impossible.

  These changes will come into effect on August 1st, but don’t despair: first of all, it may be that some alternative API will appear in the meantime and replace the deprecated ones; and secondly, the announced changes don’t affect the content published to a Facebook page. In other words, if you are using PhotoTeleport to publish your photos to a Facebook page, nothing will change for you.

  Let’s see how the situation evolves; in the worst situation, PhotoTeleport will lose its ability to post content into your own photostream; this might therefore be a good time to create yourself a nice Facebook page for your photography activity, and that will continue to work even after this summer. Time will tell…