A possible solution might be, since they are selling the application and not providing a service, is for users of the software to create their own application tokens and putting them into a new settings panel. There's no loss in sales, it does require an extra couple of steps for a user to get going but putting something like this in the advanced section or releasing it with just the Alpha might be very good solution.
Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
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Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#12Too bad they don't let a developer just kill an "app" and all its associated tokens. So Tweetbot could have a "Tweetbot Mac Alpha" app and then when they were done with the alpha, they could reclaim all those tokens.
While not ideal, they could register a new Twitter app for the released, for sale version of Tweetbot. Everyone would have to reconnect to that app (just as they originally had to do on the beta), but it should get around the issue as the new app would have zero used tokens.
Is that allowed? I figured all the TapBots apps were tied together somehow within Twitter (like separate apps on the same account) and Twitter would enforce that on new apps (since the limits would be meaningless otherwise).
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#13Too bad they don't let a developer just kill an "app" and all its associated tokens. So Tweetbot could have a "Tweetbot Mac Alpha" app and then when they were done with the alpha, they could reclaim all those tokens.
While not ideal, they could register a new Twitter app for the released, for sale version of Tweetbot. Everyone would have to reconnect to that app (just as they originally had to do on the beta), but it should get around the issue as the new app would have zero used tokens.
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Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#14Why wouldn't this site use Cloudflare or WPEngine to prevent getting slashdoted?
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#15Love Tweetbot, but why can't they just register a separate application token/secret for the alpha and change it when it goes gold? Just because it wouldn't generate any media attention or am I missing something?
Speculating, but the application and its beta are not technically separate applications, so it's quite possible that Twitter would be upset if they did that.
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#16Why wouldn't this site use Cloudflare or WPEngine to prevent getting slashdoted?
Or nginx/apache with static html.
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#17A possible solution might be, since they are selling the application and not providing a service, is for users of the software to create their own application tokens and putting them into a new settings panel. There's no loss in sales, it does require an extra couple of steps for a user to get going but putting something like this in the advanced section or releasing it with just the Alpha might be very good solution…
Or even better, have someone create a Twitter API proxy app that will let you use TweetBot unmodified.
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#18Why wouldn't this site use Cloudflare or WPEngine to prevent getting slashdoted?
Because they're not a blogging company, they're a software company. I'm betting they aren't too concerned with tweaking Wordpress performance as they are with building the things that actually make them money.
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
While not ideal, they could register a new Twitter app for the released, for sale version of Tweetbot. Everyone would have to reconnect to that app (just as they originally had to do on the beta), but it should get around the issue as the new app would have zero used tokens.
Is that allowed? I figured all the TapBots apps were tied together somehow within Twitter (like separate apps on the same account) and Twitter would enforce that on new apps (since the limits would be meaningless otherwise).
Don't think so. TweetBot for Mac and TweetBot for iOS show up as different apps in my twitter apps panel.
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#20Why wouldn't this site use Cloudflare or WPEngine to prevent getting slashdoted?
My hindsight is super clear as well, what's with these guys?