Notices by Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo: (paul@tapbots.social), page 4

Here we go, Musk finally learned that TweetDeck existed.

Meanwhile.

I look over at Twitter API land every once in a while just to see what craziness is happening. This week? They decided to remove the API that returns the following/followers for users. No notice, no comments, nothing. API stopped working, documents remove any mentions about it.

Is it a bug, is it on purpose? No one who knows is talking.

Imagine paying $100/5000/42,000+ a month for this.
https://twittercommunity.com/t/get-2-users-id-following-is-now-broken/197526

“Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.” Story of my life.
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-api-elon-musk-developer-issues-apps

The ghost of TwitterDev updated their change log (today, even though the change is dated 3 days ago) stating that the Following/Followers methods have been deprecated. Again no notice, no reasoning, no replacement, nothing.

Don't think I remember a more negative reception for an Apple product (maybe iPod socks?).
https://www.theverge.com/23770770/apple-mac-pro-m2-ultra-2023-review

Who is this Mac Pro for?

1. You need more than 2 PCIe cards (3+ T3 enclosures is a bit much IMO)
2. You need > 4TB of very fast storage (Might as well vs Apple's $2K 8TB)
3. You need an x8 Audio Video card of some sort?
4. You need > 10GbE networking (Thunderbolt can't really fully handle 25GbE. 100GbE is actually surprisingly somewhat affordable)

I'm team want #2 and #4, but need none of these.

This PCIe card is so quirky. Dual NVMe + 10GbE + dual USB-C all in one. Pretty neat little combo.
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/mcfiver-pcie-card/overview.html

Reddit is now the perfect example of Crab Mentality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipg4EL_JUyE

Now saying all the quiet parts out loud.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

This guy is really unhinged.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview

These statements are contradictory to me. You can't say you are charging what it costs and you are trying to only charge $1/user. Doesn't add up.

"What they didn’t like is the price, but the price is the price. It just happens to be expensive to run an app like Reddit.”

"Like we try to charge so it works out to about $1 per user per month for reasonable API usage”

Huffman is right, no one should subsidize a business for free. Weird though I can't seem to find the statement where Reddit announced that they are going to start paying moderator and content creators…

But hey they are willing to work with developers as long as there are no changes to the pricing or arbitary deadline.

Wow, I'm actually impressed.

https://reddark.untone.uk

There it goes, now let's talk about Rampart!
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/

Where did that Reddit AMA go?

Someone needs to learn how to read the room. Damn that’s some bad PR.

"Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses”

Doubling down.