It might not be small, but it's not exactly huge.
They already had billing integration, even if you're accessing it via a new route, and they already had a boolean on your account.
Like I said, not small, but not exactly huge either.
Suddenly that simple change had the potential for catastrophic consequences.
I’m not saying it’s going to bring the site down tomorrow but that one feature touches on a lot of services.
Okay, so two booleans, and checks of those booleans in a couple of algorithms.
This still isn't a huge change, it's not completely new functionality. Once again, not saying it's small, but it definitely isn't huge.
Plus I really don’t think you can compare B2B payments for premium API access to end user payments. Not least because they aren’t going to be going the same route: a huge number of them will be via Apple or Google in-app purchasing. Ask anyone who works with those systems, it isn’t a quick plug and play job.
In general though, a new subscription tier, feed algorithm changes, UI changes… if these aren’t, what is a big change in your book?
Is that true? I thought one of Elon’s big pushes was launching the whole Blue Tick subscription thing. That doesn’t feel like a small feature.