[adekok]

> On the other side of the spectrum, do you expect Slack to maintain the Slack integration you write for your webapp? Do you expect Microsoft to maintain Excel plugins?

No. Because the situations are different.

Here, Pinboard did essentially nothing to get IFTTT to work the first time. IFTTT wrote the integration code, and has been maintaining it. They're now trying to push that effort onto other people.

i.e. They're trying to make YOU maintain code THEY wrote. Or worse, they're trying to make YOU write code which has no value for you, but value for THEM.

If you refuse to work for free, they will remove you from IFTTT integration... to the detriment of their own users.

> Of course they might do so for a couple vital ones to help jumpstart the integration system, but it's not black and white.

It is. Given their ToS, it's pretty damned black and white. IFTTT is pushing their development costs onto the platforms they pull data from. And then claiming that those platforms have to continue working for free, and that IFTTT owns the results of that work.

If you can't see a problem with that, I'm going to make you work for my company, for free, forever.

What? You don't like that?

Well... the same applies here.

[sushid]

Not the parent commenter but I can see how this would harm the product's image as you've stated. However, they're not forcing you to do anything. Technically, they're just saying they're not going to maintain their code anymore and it's up to you to continue or not.

It's as if you've gotten a lot of business to your small coffee shop because I've chosen to shuttle potential customers to and back from your shop. If one day I tell you I'm going to stop doing this, but you're welcome to pick up the slack, am I truly being unreasonable?

[timv]

> If one day I tell you I'm going to stop doing this, but you're welcome to pick up the slack, am I truly being unreasonable?

Well, if you (dishonestly) tell the customers that the shuttle is stopping because the coffee shop refused to work with you then you're absolutely being unreasonable.

And if you tell the coffee shop that they can pick up the slack, but they need to sign this one-sided, ridiculous contract that requires that you only use their approved bus company, and don't pick up customers from any unapproved stops, and accept all liability if something goes wrong, and pay for all maintenance and repairs on the bus, (including repainting it if/when the bus company changes their branding) and agree that all passengers are customers of the bus company not the coffee shop, and the bus service can chose to take them to a different coffee shop, and the bus company can discontinue the service at any time without notice, and you can't disclose the terms of this agreement..

Well, then you're truly being unreasonable. You're welcome to try it of course, but you can expect to be publicly called out on it.