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My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT

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Re: My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT

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I am the CEO over at IFTTT. I apologize for any misunderstanding our communications today have caused. I built the Pinboard Channel on IFTTT and have maintained it for years. I am also a paying customer of Pinboard! I’ve built for hundreds of platforms and any changes to those platforms by default suck. At IFTTT, we've been on the receiving end of platform changes too many times to count. I want to make sure we do it…

Quick update: We will be keeping Pinboard on IFTTT. Here is an email we sent out to Pinboard customers this afternoon explaining! http://ift.tt/keepingpinboard

Re: My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT

#222

I am the CEO over at IFTTT. I apologize for any misunderstanding our communications today have caused. I built the Pinboard Channel on IFTTT and have maintained it for years. I am also a paying customer of Pinboard! I’ve built for hundreds of platforms and any changes to those platforms by default suck. At IFTTT, we've been on the receiving end of platform changes too many times to count. I want to make sure we do it…

You're not addressing the criticism. Don't apologize, change the TOS to make it acceptable.

Re: My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT

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I am the CEO over at IFTTT. I apologize for any misunderstanding our communications today have caused. I built the Pinboard Channel on IFTTT and have maintained it for years. I am also a paying customer of Pinboard! I’ve built for hundreds of platforms and any changes to those platforms by default suck. At IFTTT, we've been on the receiving end of platform changes too many times to count. I want to make sure we do it…

> I apologize for any misunderstanding our communications today have caused I'm not so sure there is a misunderstanding. The facts seem relatively clear: - You want services to implement your proprietary API so that IFTTT integration with their service runs more smoothly. - Your business success is predicated on other services providing those APIs, but you want them to do the work for no reward. - You have license te…

The transition definitely makes sense in the long term. The terms of services not so much. And that's where I think the controversy lies.
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