Re:Twitterrific Has Been Discontinued
by kelnos on Thursday January 19, 2023 @06:00PM
(#34446841)
I don't have a relationship with this company, but reading their "Please consider" line immediately gave me a bad impression of them.
They're a software business that relied on a third-party platform for their entire business model. It genuinely sucks that this business model has been yanked out from under them, but this is something they should have planned for (especially considering Twitter's past actions around their API and developer program), without a lame request to their now-former customers to give them free money for no service provided.
I'm sure some customers will, out of the excessive goodness of their hearts, riding on the good experience they had over the years with the app, honor that appeal. That's certainly their choice. But it's also reasonable for the rest of us to think that the appeal alone feels a bit dirty.
Re:Twitterrific Has Been Discontinued
by nocoiner on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:32PM
(#34447638)
For what it’s worth, 100% agree with you. I’m sorry for what’s happened to this dev - must be gutting - but why on earth should their customers be the ones to bear the loss of not getting to use what they paid for?
They're a software business that relied on a third-party platform for their entire business model. It genuinely sucks that this business model has been yanked out from under them, but this is something they should have planned for (especially considering Twitter's past actions around their API and developer program), without a lame request to their now-former customers to give them free money for no service provided.
I'm sure some customers will, out of the excessive goodness of their hearts, riding on the good experience they had over the years with the app, honor that appeal. That's certainly their choice. But it's also reasonable for the rest of us to think that the appeal alone feels a bit dirty.