Login Progress

Phil,
There's not any status that we could poll to let us know how long the login is going to take. It's a variable depending on the users location (in relation to your server, to Facebook's server) and the communication between your server and Facebook. Additionally, the more profile plugins or other login plugins you have enabled can slow things down.

With all that said, there's just not a 'thing' we can poll to see where the process is at. We do have the "You are now being logged in" popup, which is supposed to be an indicator to users that they are being logged in. I'm unfortunately not sure how better we could make that indication. On most sites, the login process should take less than about 5s. If your wait is excessively beyond that, let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

Phil,
Right now, after the initial Javascript click, all the communication is server side. We don't have any hooks that we could implement to get status right now, and depending on a lot of factors (mainly how many profile plugins are enabled), the percentage would be different on each site.

One thing we're looking into with the next release (v5.0) is reducing the amount of calls to Facebook on login. We've already removed a few and plan to optimize it even more in the 5.0.1 release by caching the results of some requests to prevent needing to re-call them in other spots.

For now, I'd recommend trying to disable any JFBC Profile plugins you have enabled and try again. See if that speeds things up at all, and if so, let us know what plugins are enabled and we can investigate why those might be slowing things down so much.

Thanks,
Alex