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So APPARENTLY soon we will be able to use facebook connect to edit uncyclopedia*! I mean, as if we're not spoiled enough by ability to edit using nothing but your IP, people will be able to vandalise using their real actual name! Finally! Just wanted to see if anyone was excited about this as I am. • Spang • ☃ • talk • 06:17, 09 May 2010

Facebook Connect

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Amazing!

Incredible!

Shut up, wikia

I don't get it

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*assuming it actually works and isn't a hey there's this amazing cool feature but you have to use monaco for it or everything breaks thing

Second rant in as many days, I must be an old user now

Where do I begin? Ah, yes. How can Wikia know if something is a Good Idea or not without trying it out first with their current userbase?

And we're not their entire current userbase. We're one wiki on a wiki-farm. Facebook is becoming rather prevalent in all aspects of the Internet, to the point where if I visit a relatively high-traffic site and it doesn't have Facebook Connect or something of the sort I'm honestly surprised. So from that standpoint, it actually seems like a reasonable business decision to me.

We have absolutely no way of knowing whether this will be a positive or negative benefit for all users involved. Perhaps it'll take away a bit of that anonymity of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Perhaps it'll suck balls and break everything. We just don't know.

Neither does Wikia! But when every other major player on the Internets is using a feature, it's probably a good idea to at least try. And it's not gonna kill us to put up with Facebook Connect (if it happens). We can still login and be ourselves just as normal. It's only another way of providing user accounts.

Oy. Frickin. Vey.

tl;dr Just let them give it a shot, alright? So long as they're open to feedback... – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • SU&W) 06:32 May 09, 2010

Lol. He said Wikia would be "open to feedback." -RAHB 06:38, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

"Open to feedback" just means they're not actively trying to censor it or eradicate those who try to submit it, I suppose. -- Style  Guide 07:29, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

Just to be clear on this - we are currently trying it out on a couple of wikis, and I don't know how available it will be for Uncyclopedia at this point. It may not work for Monobook wikis, and Uncyc's separate user database may be a problem. So don't go getting too excited now. (I could add in a bit here about being open to feedback, but still needing to consider more than just what Uncyc says, but you know what I'd say already) -- sannse<staff/> (talk) 07:40, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

I have just one question. What the heck is "facebook"? Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 07:48, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

A book glued to one's face. Isn't it obvious? —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 09:55, 9 May 2010

Hold on! It could also be a book with nothing but images of faces in it. -- Style  Guide 14:18, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

Frankly, Facebook is millions of times more evil than Wikia, in the grand scheme of things. I mean, sure, Wikia has broken promises, but Facebook has openly courted trust only to backstab their users through repeated information rape. Therefore, I'm actually not upset at Wikia for this, as they probably had their arms twisted in some monstrously one-sided back door negotiation orchestrated by Facebook. Doesn't mean I'm happy about it, but I'm not angry at Wikia.--<<>> 22:47, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

While I agree that Facebook is a privacy-raping hack organization, I don't have any idea what connection they could possibly have with Wikia. Facebook has launched tools that allow other sites to connect with it more easily than ever, and now Facebook integration is everywhere. I don't honestly suspect it was forced. – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • SU&W) 17:26 May 10, 2010

Yah, nothing forced, just an option that some people may find fun (and which I'm told is quite likely to have a problem with Uncyc's set-up... more on this when I know more) -- sannse<staff/> (talk) 02:19, May 11, 2010 (UTC)

What's wrong with you Spang?

Why didn't you give us a 'penis' option? Love,  

Penis is always an option. – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • SU&W) 02:31 May 11, 2010

Doesn't the penis go into the Facebook?  ~ Avast Matey!!! Happytimes are here!*  (talk) (stalk) Π   ~  ~  12 May 2010 ~ 05:11 (UTC)

No, you're thinking of Chatroulette.--<<>> 05:49, May 12, 2010 (UTC)