Re:OAuth and API Providers: Come on guys.
by simonw on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @12:52PM
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I don't understand what the author means by this paragraph:
"Now when a user signs up websites try to make it as easiest as possible to increase user sign up and adoption. Then you provide an API that exposes this information and has data gaps because you wanted to avoid having the user type in one more field during sign up. The API should drive those requirements not the other way around."
Is the author saying that sites should focus on making life easy for API consumers at the expense of their users? If so, I couldn't disagree more.
"Now when a user signs up websites try to make it as easiest as possible to increase user sign up and adoption. Then you provide an API that exposes this information and has data gaps because you wanted to avoid having the user type in one more field during sign up. The API should drive those requirements not the other way around."
Is the author saying that sites should focus on making life easy for API consumers at the expense of their users? If so, I couldn't disagree more.