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Forget about the developers perspective and consider the users of the software that consume the API itself. Their applications will suddenly stop working and we
by dodyg 14y ago
Forget about the developers perspective and consider the users of the software that consume the API itself. Their applications will suddenly stop working and we cannot assume that they can obtain the upgraded version of their software (for various reasons).
- davewiner 14y agoThat's right. Most of the development done with Flickr was finished a long time ago, and the apps are deployed and there's no one around to deal with deprecated APIs. That's of course assuming that it's possible to do with a new API what you could do with the old one. We've seen with Twitter that's not necessarily true. But thanks Dody for thinking of users. That's often pretty far down the priority list for developers, esp at big companies.