New feature in JFBconnect? FB registration date

What are you looking to accomplish with registration date? Just check if they've been a FB users for '6 months+' and if so, they are good to register?

Other things I think you may want to check instead is how many friends the user has. I think that's a pretty easy lookup. You could even check the amount of things they've Like'd or other things to make an educated guess.

We may look into the registration date thing, but it wouldn't be high on priority list simply because, if Facebook doesn't provide it, there's a good reason why.. and the logic to guess it may not work all of a sudden, which would be bad.

I hope that helps, but feedback is welcome!

Thanks,
Alex

I do understand what you're saying. It could be a neat feature if it was something Facebook supported. Unfortunately, we've been burned by going outside the box before. We support thousands of sites, and once a feature becomes relied upon by our users, if Facebook changes it (which has happened to us before), it causes lots of problems.

If denials start happening based on registration date, spam accounts would likely go up (on Facebook) to get accounts in the system as early as possible. In general though, we've seen that Facebook is pretty good at keeping fake/duplicate accounts to a minimum, but there will always be abuse.

If you do need guidance on where to implement that code to guess the reg date, we could help you do so. It likely wouldn't be too difficult.. just not something we'd put in the next release.

Thanks,
Alex

No. Getting the registration date is not a field that Facebook will let you see about the user, regardless of what permissions you request.

To add that check, you'd need to modify our controller files, which perform the login and registration process. We can help point you in the right direction if you let us know how you're currently letting user register (normal or automatic registration). You'd have to implement the code and verify it, but we'll gladly help tell you where the best to inject that code.

Thanks,
Alex