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.

  • @TheFunkyMonk
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    2088 months ago

    I still haven’t had to update a Twitter logo on a website yet. We’ve had it come up for 3 clients so far, and they’ve all just decided to drop it. You love to see it.

    • @[email protected]
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      658 months ago

      I saw the X logo on a Bundesliga broadcast for the first time and it looks so out of place

    • @samus12345
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      68 months ago

      I don’t blame them, it’s a bit like having a swastika on your website.

  • Tygr
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    1218 months ago

    As a developer, I’ve only had people request removal of Twitter. They’d rather lose the bird than add an X.

    • @Nindelofocho
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      38 months ago

      A bird in the hand is worth….very little apparently

  • lemmyvore
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    928 months ago

    I thought this was about Slackware ditching X11 for a moment… which, arguably, would have been a more interesting piece of tech news.

  • N3Cr0
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    558 months ago

    This is great news!

  • @Bye
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    428 months 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
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      238 months 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.

        • @hperrin
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          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      128 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      68 months 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
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      38 months 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.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    198 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Slack has retired its integration with X (formerly Twitter) because of X’s API changes introduced earlier this year.

    According to Slack, X’s API changes affected the functionality of the integration, which led to the decision to retire it.

    “Slack’s integration with X relies on access to its API, and changes to that API this spring impacted the integration’s functionality and the services it supports,” Rod Garcia, Slack’s VP of software engineering, said in a statement to The Verge.

    The retirement means that Slack’s X integration is just one of many useful things relying on X / Twitter data that has gone away because of the changes instituted under Elon Musk’s ownership.

    In January, X banned third-party apps, which my former colleague Mitchell Clark argued made the site what it is today.

    When asked for comment, X’s press email replied with its recent standard auto-reply: “Busy now, please check back later.”


    The original article contains 260 words, the summary contains 149 words. Saved 43%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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      408 months ago

      When asked for comment, X’s press email replied with its recent standard auto-reply: “Busy now, please check back later.”

      What an absolute poop show

      • Riskable
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        48 months ago

        To be fair, if I was stuck pooping for over a year like X I would also have that set as my auto-reply 🤷

  • @Synthead
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    8 months ago

    …X, formerly Twitter…

    • @samus12345
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      28 months ago

      Still waiting for when articles don’t feel the need to add that in.

    • 2xsaiko
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      18 months ago

      I really wonder why he renamed it to “X, formerly Twitter”. /s

  • @hperrin
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    98 months ago

    “Slack Gives X the Axe”