Important Announcement to Magic Desktop Users
From May 1, 2015, you can no longer use Magic Desktop Dashboard, which is the function to work in cooperation with Facebook.
Instead of using the Dashboard, we will ask you to use a web browser in order to login to Facebook, see News Feed, and post messages in the web browser.
This issue is due to Facebook's decision to stop sharing News Feed with third party application and there are no ways to solve this issue on the Magic Desktop side.
April 30, 2015
PFU Limited
Affected Software
Magic Desktop V1.0 (all versions and levels)
Issue
The following phenomena occur when you try to use Magic Desktop Dashboard.
- When you try to display Facebook News Feed on the Dashboard, the error message "Failed to acquire feed information." is shown and any newsfeed is NOT shown on the Dashboard.
- A list of Facebook Groups is NOT shown on the Dashboard, and you CANNOT see any group feeds or post messages to Facebook Groups from the Dashboard(error messages are NOT shown in this case.)
Correction Update
We have no plan to offer the Update.
This issue is due to Facebook's decision to stop sharing News Feed with third party application and there are no ways to solve this issue on the Magic Desktop side.
Workaround
Instead of using the Dashboard, we will ask you to use a web browser in order to login to Facebook, see News Feed, and post messages in the web browser.
