Facebook is modifying the notification system yet again. As usual, the application developers will be the ones experiencing the bulk of the change as a result of the changes made. The result for users? Less notifications per application - or at least, more quality notifications.
According to Facebook, the applications will no longer have a static upper limit of 40 notifications per user per day, but the number of notifications displayed will be based on several factors, which are based on feedback garnered from users. Such feedback looks at what types of notifications users hide, ignore, and report as spam, and these factors will all be considered for the ever-changing notification system.
While all this tweaking has been rather frustrating for many of the app developers out there, consider it a useful lesson that can be applied to future apps for not only Facebook, but for other networks' platforms as well. The thing about having a first mover advantage is that everyone else gets to benefit from the ongoing experimentation, which will no doubt be utilized by everyone else that's interested, in some degree, in third-party applications.