[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by skylab

Had to keep it. We'll see where this goes. Hopefully it goes well.

Looking over some of those issues mentioned in that post, I don't know if I totally agree with all of them.

1) Changes to Facebook or vBulletin in the future may render this mod incompatible, relying then on support from the developer to bring this mod back in line; if hundreds of administrators are relying on support from a sole developer who decides they are no longer bothered to upgrade for future facebook/vBulletin releases, this will have huge implications for incorrect login functions for potentially millions of registered members across the vBulletin communities.

Well, this much I can agree with. However, this is nothing unique to this mod. Every mod on this site suffers from that one drawback of free thrid-party modifications.

2) Facebook partially holds registration details of members, eg. email addresses and passwords. If this mod was ever ditched, I could in theory have thousands of members unable to log in to my forum unless each account was manually altered in admincp. Registered members are unable to do this themselves as changes to email addys or passwords would not be possible as vBulletin would not recognise their original/old details. A logistical nightmare for administrators of large vB communities.

I think the only issue here is if the proxy email address no longer functions, which if I'm not mistaken, is soley the process of the Facebook Developer application. I'm just guessing here, but I would think as long you keep the application active in your Facebook Developer account, this should still always work.

3) It appears that facebook Connect users cannot be contacted via mass email or mass PM add-ons as such users are not found within the database. This effectively renders the use of these important functions useless in the long-term. Especially important should the need arise above where they must take action to continue to log in to the messageboard.

I don't understand this one. How are the users able to post, or even exist, if they're not in the database?