That said, the inconsistent behavior you’re seeing between pages definitely sounds like a bug. You should probably open a bug report: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/

So the “rules” they mentioned above are not true…
In case somebody has some update about this problem, let us know!

I am admin of a page categorized as “Brands & Products -> Website” which DOES have the possibility to choose a default landing page: this page has only 225 fans.

I am admin of an other page, also categorized as “Brands & Products -> Website” which DOESN’T have the possibility to choose a default landing page! (and this page has 1720 fans)

It makes no sense…
Does anyone know some facebook form or email?

“Hello,

As of last night, we've removed the recently-added authentication requirement for setting custom landing tabs on Pages. The requirement was instituted as part of a Pages quality initiative, and we apologize for the inconvenience this caused to our developer and business community. We are re-investigating the situation, and will not make any further changes without first giving our community standard notice and lead-time.

Thanks for all your feedback,
Matt Trainer”

Lets roll out a bunch of new stuff even though we can't get the existing stuff to work.

Even today, I have a tab where two cached images got magically resized by Facebook and broke the layout. http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cg…

That said, it does appear as I'm writing this that the default landing tab functionality has been restored. But for how long? And why still no mea culpa from Facebook?

I've heard debates about “is Facebook Evil?”. My vote is for greedy and incompetent. Amoral? Maybe that too.

Every time I try to sit down and write about the privacy crap they've recently pulled, I feel physically tired. I mean, I am physically tired normally because I don't sleep much, but the sheer magnitude of fuckery, the amount of explaining so people understand, and the frustration of the media seeming to think that the privacy issues end with “don't post stupid drunken photos on facebook” is overwhelming and I just don't even know where to start.

I understand the need to monetize a product, and I'm 1000% okay with that – but you can monetize without throwing under the bus all of the small developers and companies that helped make you the biggest site on the internet in the process. If FB didn't have apps, do you think it would be nearly as popular as it today? Of course not. And who builds those apps? People like me – for free. Some of us may find ways to monetize, some don't – but ultimately, years later, developers are still completely fucked. If stuff doesn't work, or isn't documented, we have NOWHERE to go for help. Sure, you can post on the developer forums, but the dev forums are ALL questions, and rarely any answers. I'd have as much luck climbing to the top of the mountain I live on and screaming my question into the wind. In years as a developer, I don't think a single question I've ever posted has actually been answered on the forums. So we helped build this empire, and they still give us nothing – and then continue to take away whatever small things we did have.

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