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Re:Volatile – A key-value pair API by theon144 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:01AM (#21512662)
Right; it's somewhat silly to suggest standard compliance to a service obviously not meant for any sort of serious use, but this irked me too.
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Re:Volatile – A key-value pair API by phoe-krk on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:05AM (#21512682)
> a service obviously not meant for any sort of serious use

Multiple existing and established services were created as proofs-of-concept, silly jokes, experiments, and other "non-serious use" projects. Many of them have survived and we are forced to bear with their sloppy design all the time.

Have you ever used e.g. JavaScript?

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