[ChristianPerry]

You're absolutely right. (I'm the author of the post, btw.) I've brought up these issues with Facebook in the past, and I've yet to receive satisfactory answers.

Using FBConnect is a calculated risk for us. It gives us the chance to grow faster (via News Feed integration), to make our site more social ("15 of your Facebook friends are on Trogger. Click here to follow them."), and to streamline the login/signup process.

As an early-stage startup, our top priority is to launch quickly and grow fast. We feel that FBConnect helps us do both of these things better than any alternative.

If we establish traction, and get a bunch of users, then we'll be paying a lot of attention to the points you brought up. I think it makes a lot of sense to have a contingency plan if Facebook significantly alters or restricts FBConnect, in a similar way they diminished the prominence of applications not too long ago.

At the end of the day, though, it comes down to growth. Many startups launch and fail because no one knows about them. FBConnect gives us the best opportunity to break out of this mold, and reach the proverbial hockey-stick a lot faster than would otherwise be possible.

[mdasen]

Your post was definitely cool, but I felt you weren't one-sided enough ;-). Maybe you could provide a link to Trogger? Is it still in development?

As a piece of advice, I would recommend very strongly that you get people's email even if it makes registration a two-step process. That way, if anything happens, you can generate temp passwords and email them with an explanation that Facebook terminated FBConnect, but you're still good!