Facebook app review

Nope, you don't need any of those permissions.

user_friends let's you peek at the friends of people that have authenticated on your site. This is one of many things that got Facebook in trouble since it let's people harvest vast swaths of data.

Page Public Content Access is also not used by JFBConnect. This would let you fetch the public feed of a Page you do *not* own (not the admin of).

For a Page you own, you need to have the manage_pages permission. That let's you pull the feed from any Pages the authenticator is an admin of. manage_pages does require App Review for it to function when the app is in Live (not development) mode.

I hope that explains.

As for Messenger, what wouldn't work about it? Any details you can give would be super helpful so we can look into it further. Support is handled through these forums or, now, messenger.

Thanks,
Alex

You can check what permissions you've been granted by going to the Facebook Developer Area , clicking into your app and going to the App Review -> My Permissions and Features menu area.

As for Messenger, yup, it seems like things are working on Facebook's end now. There's nothing we changed in JFBConnect, but certainly if you run into other issues, let us know as we'll gladly investigate. There's a thread about the Messenger issues below as well that you can follow in case other people report it or to get updates:
www.sourcecoast.com/forums/jfbconnect/jf...-some-devices#p65635

Thanks,
Alex

It looks like they are requiring all apps to go through review for manage_pages now. If you use the Channels feature of JFBConnect, you'll need to go through the review process.

In general, that entails letting them know that you (the admin) are adding content to your Page from your website. You don't add content to general users Pages or pull in feeds from other Pages, just the ones you manage. Pictures of the JFBConnect admin area and/or a stream view of your page on the front end (if you use that feature) is suggested.

You can read more in our blog post Facebook's App Review Process Explained .

I hope that helps,
Alex

All good questions, Nick. All good questions. We can tell you what we think will happen, but Facebook is very opaque about a lot of these things and, unfortunately, we have to wait until whatever they announce happens to actually know how it affects things.

Your Channel in JFBConnect definitely won't go away. We store the information about the Channel in your database so you won't have to reconfigure JFBConnect. When the permission goes away, 1 of 2 things is going to happen:
* Nothing. Since JFBConnect already has the Page Details *and* you've approved the 'publish_pages' permission (which isn't going through the same change as manage_pages that we're aware of), things may just work. If you wanted to publish to a new Page, you would need to get the publish_pages permission.
* Publishing and Reading from your Page will stop working. Once you get approved for that permission, you'll need to authenticate on the front-end again and JFBConnect will get back to working as normal.

App Review is a big pain, we'll agree. However, we'd recommend starting the process for the manage_pages and publish_pages permission when you get a chance to ensure you have what you need for features and functionality to keep working properly.

I hope that helps!
Alex