Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship.
by corwinstephen on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:15AM
(#4623022)
Just the other day I went to use the good old fashioned twitter API to find that it had been deprecated in favor of a new one that requires that I do everything differently in order to get the same results. Really irked me. I can empathize with this guy.
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Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship.
by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:31AM
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Yeah. I wanted to read some tweets, but apparently I now need a stupid API token and have to do OAuth! What happened to the good old days of session-less read only-mode APIs?! :(
Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship.
by tommorris on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:33AM
(#4623044)
Well, in the case of Twitter: Justin Bieber happened.
Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship.
by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:42AM
(#4623056)
Eh?
Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship.
by tommorris on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:48AM
(#4623066)
Justin Bieber is my internal shorthand for: Twitter's API changes are based around the fact that they care more about celebrities and media than around being a good web API citizen or whatever. ;-)