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Some Facebook apps are currently messed up due to what looks like Facebook not parsing app stylesheets and missing its own master stylesheets.  It’s unclear how many people and how many apps this affects, but it’s a major screwup.

Clearly, managing a site that serves tens of millions of people on a regular basis is no easy task.  But it’s not the first mistake that has made the site or the apps inaccessible.

If Facebook wants its ecosystem of third-party apps to thrive — and expects developers to build businesses on the Facebook app platform — it has to start treating the platform like a true business-level service.  And that means getting a grasp on Facebook’s QA and deployment processess so that bugs like these don’t keep knocking apps offline.