Facebook Removes Automatic Feed Form Publishing as Stream is Unveiled

As developers have no doubt heard by now, Facebook unveiled its new Stream API yesterday. Along with the update, Facebook appears to have modified Feed Forms to give advantages to the new Stream API methods.

As several developers noticed yesterday on the Developer Forums, Facebook appears to have removed the ability for an application to “remember” a users choice when publishing a Feed Story via a Feed Form. Here is a before-and-after of the change:

Before



After

As you can see, the checkbox in the lower-left corner has been removed.

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