X’s API changes are to blame.

Slack gets rid of its X integration::Slack has retired its integration with X (formerly Twitter) because of X’s API changes introduced earlier this year. It’s just one of many useful apps that used Twitter’s data that’s now gone.

  • Bye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    1 year ago

    Didn’t even know they had it

    Can they add Lemmy-style threaded replies? It’s dumb that thread depth is fixed at 1. We had infinitely threaded replies way back in the BBS days, it isn’t exactly a new feature.

    • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3310·
      1 year ago

      But it’s really hard to add one new database column that’s just a single foreign key. That would take, like, a few minutes of work.

      • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
        394·
        1 year ago

        And then index it, provision appropriate storage at the appropriate speed for it, decide how to shard it, update stored procedures to be aware of it, update the API to include it where necessary, update the clients to use it and render it correctly in the GUI, and give a heads up to integration developers of the likely breaking change.

        Yeah, few minutes, tops.

        • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          213·
          1 year ago

          Most of that is already done, or is trivial considering they already support nested conversations with a depth of 1.

          I can guarantee you this is not a technical decision, this is a UX decision.

    • lenny@r.nfEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      They only added threading because teams added it. I hated it when it launched. Now I find it kinda useful, but if they were deeply nested things would undoubtedly get lost. Either way I don’t think it’s a technical limitations so much as it’s a product design choice.

    • PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know if deeper thread branching is a good idea. I’m already struggling to find Slack comments from people who are in multiple channels and DMs each with various threads off of a main comment

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Which BBS systems did you use? The ones I used (which mostly ran Renegade) didn’t have branching threads; we’d just quote whichever message we were replying to.