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submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 207 points 11 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.

[-] ayyndrew@lemm.ee 65 points 11 months ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 122 points 11 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@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 118 points 11 months ago

X integration is easy, isn't it just X^2 +C?

[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 109 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago

Yeah. It's been about 20 years since calculus but ultimately worth going out on a limb for the joke. Thanks.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

Take your up vote and get out.

[-] supimacat 9 points 11 months ago

brb pulling up with the riemann integral

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 96 points 11 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.

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 38 points 11 months ago

Wayland is the way of the future!

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Wake me when it's the way of the present.

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

I mean, it's my presence for about a year and a half

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Same here for 2-3 years now, and that's on a dual graphics Nvidia laptop with the proprietary drivers. I love not having to mess around with xorg.conf!

[-] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 6 points 11 months ago

I’m waiting for them to merge with Yutanee

[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

This is great news!

[-] Bye@lemmy.world 43 points 11 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@lemmy.world 33 points 11 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.

[-] lenny@r.nf 12 points 11 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.

[-] PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 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@lemmy.world 3 points 11 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.

[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

🎉🎉🎉

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 19 points 11 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.”


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[-] lemann@lemmy.one 40 points 11 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@programming.dev 4 points 11 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 🤷

[-] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Oh 💩

[-] Synthead@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] ____@infosec.pub 8 points 11 months ago

Perhaps one day soon, it will just be X, formerly

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

“Slack Gives X the Axe”

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