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Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
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#33pipes creator here: sad to see pipes shutdown. i am surprised it lasted this long -- it was abandoned years ago. on the positive side, it is nice to see it mentioned in the same sentence as y! maps which used to be a big deal back in the day.
Let me just tell you and anyone that worked on the team, thanks so much for it. You saved me hours of work and let me do it really damn well. This is a sad, sad day. I used Pipes extensively and ironically enough at Yahoo for some features/prototypes on News and Search. It was such an elegant and powerful app, I really wish Yahoo had given it more love.
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#34Pipes was the first service I ever owned from an ops perspective (circa 2008). We had two clusters, one on each coast. I thought we had capacity to take one offline to do a full upgrade, turns out we didn't.
By the time I turned the west coast back online, the east coast was failing health checks, and the LB failed everything over to the west coast, which then proceeded to be overloaded, and everything flipped back to the east coast... Ping ponged for about 2 hours until they finally settled.
Fun times.
Another fun story: For the longest time the front page had an example pipe that merged search results from various online sites (amazon/ebay/cl). It was made by a former employee and was easily one of the most popular pipes. One day we found out he had his affiliate id in all of those links. We chuckled and moved on.
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#35Who is working on a pipes replacement and where can I sign-up? Maybe this will be like when google killed Reader and RSS replacements became a hot area...
Have you tried IFTTT? Not sure what your usecase is, but that might do the job.
IFTTT doesn't let me basically reformat an RSS feed and then see it in my RSS reader. Most/all of my use of pipes was "go scrape this thing and turn it into RSS, filtering out stuff I don't want to see."
It was great for that - I'm unaware of anything that is even trying to replace it.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
IFTTT and Zapier are spiritual successors to Pipes, although their focus is on APIs vs feeds. Maybe start a new, open source version of Pipes?
It really would be oh so nice to have something that can ingest RSS and Tweets and then apply filters to them while visualizing the logic through a graphical interface. Maybe even some fuzzy machine learning to use in building filters. Some more advanced dupe technology would go a long way. People would be building their own techmemes in no time. You could build ranking systems that award bonus points if something li…
For what it's worth, that is exactly one of the things I am building. Glad to read I am not the only one needing it.
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#37This is why I just roll my own data mining tools.
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#38Who is working on a pipes replacement and where can I sign-up? Maybe this will be like when google killed Reader and RSS replacements became a hot area...
Who is working on a pipes replacement
What would be the best toolset to recreate the Pipes UI?
It's pretty slick, and I could see the underlying UI being useful for modeling a variety of things...
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#39In an alternate universe not too dissimilar from our own, Pipes is an independent startup and this announcement is Yahoo buying it for 8-9 figures
There was IFTTT but looking at their page now it seems like maybe they have pivoted, at least I can't tell that it works like it used to: https://ifttt.com/
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried IFTTT? Not sure what your usecase is, but that might do the job.
IFTTT doesn't let me basically reformat an RSS feed and then see it in my RSS reader. Most/all of my use of pipes was "go scrape this thing and turn it into RSS, filtering out stuff I don't want to see." It was great for that - I'm unaware of anything that is even trying to replace it.
I've used this beforem but it's been a while http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/