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I'm just learning this stuff; haven't written an app yet. But I have noticed that in all the explanations I have read anywhere (including here) of the feed point system, there is always some important piece of data missing. The reason I know this is that according to *all* the explanations, taken literally, the feed point system is impossible and should result in zero news feeds for everyone. To recap simply: 5 points available per user (possibly up to 10); publishing an action of that user eats up one point per friend that user has; the vast majority of Facebook users have *way* more than 5 (or even 10) friends; therefore, it is impossible to publish actions at all for the vast majority of Facebook users.

I know this logic is wrong, because the news feed system clearly does work. So please point out for me where the flaw lies.--639926586 10:05, 1 July 2007 (PDT)

[edit] What the hell does this all mean???

Maybe I'm missing something totally obvious here -- but what's the difference between posting an "action" and posting a "story" to the newsfeed? They both seem to do the same thing but the "story" one is more locked down. And what's the deal with the frivolous restrictions on <fb:name> tag use? Feeds can be published 10 times in a 48 hour period while stories only once per 12 hours? Why use stories? What does this all mean??? It's like this whole thing was designed by a bunch of cranked up web elitists with no regard for documentation. Case in point -- I'm writing this on a freakin' wiki wall. Grow up, Facebook!!!

[edit] facebook.xsd doesn't validate

Just a heads up to any facebook devs that may be reading this. The XML Schema (facebook.xsd) that defines the XML return structures is invalid. Apparently the definition of the 'container' type is missing. I'm not sure if facebook has a bugzilla (if not it really should). Just a minor glitch in a very cool framework (yes I'm a an XML nerd).