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by idlewords 3741 days ago
Actually, all I want is for existing IFTTT recipes that use Pinboard not to break.

I am fine with IFTTT discontinuing support for my site because of our diverging views on whether a service like IFTTT should be a platform or a roll of duct tape, but the stuff people have duct-taped together should stay duct-taped together.
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SolarNet 3741 days ago
This whole thing is exactly my problem with duct-tape as a service. Stuff a Huginn docker container (FOSS IFTTT) on your own server and bam, personal duct-tape.
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WCityMike 3741 days ago
In case it's not immediately clear, this is Maciej from Pinboard. Note the handle is the same as his blog's name.
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kefka 3741 days ago
I think the other part here, is that IFTTT is making it sound blackmail-y...

IFTTT to users: Weeeeelllll, we had great integration with X service, but they refuse to play ball with us any more. And now, their connector broke, and they refuse to fix it!

It makes you look bad to the users. And if you refuse this faustian 'deal', you're slandered and stuff breaks. And that break isn't because software rot, but because they broke it. And then blame you for it.

Yeah, blackmail is the right word.

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