#third party apps

If you are going to a hotel and there is any possibility whatsoever that the hotel will be fully booked

Like for a con, a concert, a big event of any kind

Book through the hotel’s website

You will pay more than if you use those apps and sites to find you the best deals

You know what you get for that money though?

You get the fucking room

Hotels and all those deal sites can will and DO book more rooms than the hotel physically has all the fucking time

Third parties are the first to get kicked, because the hotel prioritises the people who booked through their own website

I need constant ideas for recipes to reverse engineer around my food allergies.

I have zero idea of how many ppl will actually leave reddit but it is a shame. I had already deleted Facebook and Twitter.

Once again Tumblr survived the purge against all odds.

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While platforms like Reddit and Twitter are changing rules and making life difficult for developers of third-party clients, the ecosystem of Mastodon apps is still growing. Today, indie developer Jake Nelson released a simple iOS app called Radiant, which focuses on simple and functional design. Other clients, such as Ivory, Mammoth, and Woolly are made by developers who had popular Twitter…

I am in reddit withdrawal, and it's been 12 hours.

I will hold the line! no retreat, no surrender! Fuck reddit and their fucking monetization.

Speaking of third party Mastodon clients…

Checking out phanpy.social, it looks amazing. So clean, very app like, adjustable text size and interface via browser control. It’s still in development but it looks like it’s ready for regular use if you’re looking for a visually pleasing and functional web app for Mastodon. Best used on mobile or tablet, IMO.

All the boosted posts are grouped together in a carousel, threads get highlighted with an automated count, replies have a different shade, content warning, post visibility, text description, language options, attachments, and polls are available.

Posts are shown either as the normal stack of text blocks or separated as cards depending on your browser’s zoom level, and you can launch the post composition field into a different browser window for much larger and clearer view.

It has dark mode and post detail opens up in a new sheet over the timeline in the same window. Love it!

On Friday, 13 January 2023, Twitter turned off access to most third party Twitter clients. People who used apps like Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Echofon were suddenly shut out of their apps, faced with a screen that told them there’s an authentication issue. 

It’s not the first time third party apps were given the shaft by the company but this time there were no warnings, no official statements acknowledging the matter, no explanations. It’s as if millions of voices were suddenly silenced.

While there had been internal discussions about the ban, it wasn’t until almost a week later that there was an official word and even then there was no public communication that third party apps are no longer allowed. Engadget found out by diving into Twitter’s developer terms which were only just updated yesterday.

Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry was rightly incensed about the move, and his Iconfactory colleague Sean Heber wrote about having to shut down the app after 16 years. It’s absolutely clear that Twitter is no longer the same company as it was a year ago or even six months ago.