I also just discovered there’s no way to follow/unfollow in the new API and that has thwarted a planned a legit usage for it. My game SpyParty has a notifier that uses the twitch API and tweets and posts in our discord when people stream the game. I do different cool stuff depending on how many times they’ve streamed it (for example expanding their preview card on discord after they’ve streamed 5 times), and I was planning on having the official channel follow folks who regularly stream the game so its lists of followers basically matched the current streaming community for the game. It appears I can’t do that now.
I agree with the posters above that any spammers are just going to use selenium or whatever and this probably barely slowed them down and only impacts legit developers, and having a whitelist application for devs and rate limits would have been a much better solution for the twitch developer ecosystem.
Chris
PS. I’m also not a huge fan of the “vote it up” way of doing feature requests and bug fixes by sites these days, you end up with a bunch of surface level sexy stuff that doesn’t actually make the core system any better or more flexible, in my experience.