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by baddox 3771 days ago
I agree that the article's examples are great, but you don't need examples to convince me that a zero-warning API shut-off is a bad thing. Regardless of how many people are using the API (if it's non-zero), why not send them emails 3 months in advance? It costs you virtually nothing and almost certainly prevents this article from being written.
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> why not send them emails 3 months in advance?

Sounds like that's basically what they did.

https://twitter.com/williamready/status/703349746992197632

> The @Venmo API is still available to existing users

If you care about developers ...