Facebook links from profiles don't work

[guaka]

From my own profile: https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/10152809941777209

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[simison]

Yeah, should skim FB API changes to see what has changed. Similar: #611

[guaka]

Do we have the FB uid?
In that case linking to https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=<UID> is probably a simple solution.

[guaka]

I guess we don't have the FB uid. But this looks good: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23805866/get-facebook-user-id-from-app-scoped-user-id

[simison]

We have app-scoped UIDs and their API doesn't allow exposing the actual user IDs. Looks like we need to do some changes at FB admin panel to gain access to user_link permissions again.

Update: I sent the API permission for review. Waiting. 🤞

Seems like this broke in August 1: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/07/31/facebook-app-review-update/

[simison]

We heard back from Facebook. This might require some small changes to our site — until those are done, FB links are going to be broken but the connection button should remain working.

I might hide links from profiles but for now I'll keep it there in case we get this solved soonish.

[github-actions]

This issue is marked as unloved because it has not had any activity for 180 days.

It doesn't mean it's not important, so please remove the unloved label if you like it, or add a comment saying what it means to you :) If this was a bug, maybe you can test to see if this is still an issue?

However, if you just leave it like this, I'll close it in 14 days to help keep your issues tidy!

Thanks!