I don’t know what “statistics people” are or why you think I’m one, but if anyone is okay with this, they must be deranged. Or maybe they just realize that it’s not worth it trying to nag you about it…
Seriously? I can’t even begin to tell you how impractical and stupid this is. You can’t be serious.
Why would I want to go through the hell of dealing with hosting companies, domain registrars, DNS hosts and all their BS, paying them a bunch of money all the time, just to use the Twitch API? I don’t get paid anything for doing so, and even if I did collect data (which I don’t), it would just be meaningless noise. Twitch is a bunch of kids screaming in chat rooms – not some sort of ultra-curated goldmine of personal information. Either way, nothing I’ve asked for would in any way be “worse for privacy” compared to the existing API.
I’m actually not collecting any data whatsoever. I’m trying to use the Twitch API, but it’s been (seemingly) deliberately crippled as to be practically useless.
I’m not “hiding” behind anything. This forum forced me to pick a nickname to post, so I had to enter something. That’s it. Why does it even matter who I am?
I already explained why this doesn’t make any sense, but considering the replies I’ve got so far while asking API questions, I feel as if you aren’t exactly eager to implement or fix anything. You seem to have very little interest in correcting even the most jarring bugs with the API, and the general tone of your messages make me think you’re basically mocking me…
I don’t have a whole infrastructure set up to poll your API 24/7 for every single user on the site. Even if that would be possible (it would obviously quickly hit the rate limits), it would add an insane amount of strain on your servers for no reason other than “we don’t wanna provide this basic info because you can do it in this extremely cumbersome and insane way instead”. But why? I seriously don’t understand your mentality. If I were running Twitch and somebody pointed out the things I’ve asked about (perhaps with the exception of the rate limit headers, which I did figure out how to deal with eventually), I would be happy that somebody identified them and probably fix them within hours – not talk about how it’s “not on the roadmap”.
This almost makes me wonder why you have an API at all. I feel as if I’m missing something.
Logically, if you didn’t care about feedback, you wouldn’t even have a forum like this. But since you do, why not actually listen to what people report? At least when it comes to simple things like the ones I’ve mentioned? And finally, sorry if you have something personally against me because I “sound rude” or something – I’m just very to-the-point, and when I feel like I’m not being told the truth, I get very frustrated.