> he simply said here's the end point, here's the format, go at it. I think this is the real lesson. Don't encourage people to take dependencies on you withou

> he simply said here's the end point, here's the format, go at it. I think this is the real lesson. Don't encourage people to take dependencies on you without requiring they give you a way to contact them. Another lesson here is the value of the "scream test". If he'd turned off the service for a 24-hour period, it would have been enough to get most people's attention. This is doubly-true if he returned the 403 with a body that stated when the hard cutoff was.