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Asked: 2026-05-17T00:00:56+00:00

Hypothetically, suppose I wanted to produce an alternative user interface to Facebook. How complete

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Hypothetically, suppose I wanted to produce an alternative user interface to Facebook. How complete could it be and what would be the most important features that couldn’t be implemented?

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    You probably would be able to reproduce about 5% if not less.

    • You would stuck right away at login form as it cannot be reproduced outside of facebook 🙂 You can’t login through API without forwarding a user to facebook web page or popup.
    • You can’t register a new user either.
    • Search abilities are very limited. You can’t make any detailed searches through Graph API. Using FQL wouldn’t help much either as 90% table fields and not indexed and not available for searching.
    • Most data queries are limited to latest 5,000 entries, anything older is invisible to API.
    • What is public on facebook site not always visible to API without extended permissions
    • Like button cannot be reproduced
    • There is no API for creating new applications

    and many more…

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