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by nomel 458 days ago
What happens if you use the proper rate limiting status of 429? It includes a next retry time [1]. I'm curious what (probably small) fraction would respect it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

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Probably makes sense for a b2b app where you publish status codes as part of the api

Bad actors don’t care and annoying actors would make fun of you for it on twitter