'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) 177
Like many of you, I use IFTTT. It's one of the handiest tools on the internet to get your work done. Want a text alert for weather? Want a notification on your Android smartphone whenever someone you follow publishes a blog post? IFTTT can do all sorts of such things. It is able to do so because it works with different companies and utilizes APIs of their services. Many of these companies are happy to have IFTTT trying to enhance the experience of their customers. Many don't necessarily want -- or can allow -- IFTTT to do that. Pinboard, a social bookmarking website, falls in the latter category. Maciej Ceglowski, CEO of Pinboard in a blog post explained why that is the case: Imagine if your sewer pipe started demanding that you make major changes in your diet. Now imagine that it got a lawyer and started asking you to sign things. You would feel surprised. This is the position I find myself in today with IFTTT, a form of Internet plumbing that has been connecting peaceably to my backend for the past five years, but which has recently started sending scary emails. [...] Because many of you rely on IFTTT, and because [their request] makes it sound like I'm the asshole, I feel I should explain myself. In a nutshell: 1. IFTTT wants me to do their job for them for free. 2. They have really squirrely terms of service. In the blog post, Ceglowski further explains his concerns with IFTTT. He says IFTTT wants ownership of all right, title, and interest. "Pinboard is in some ways already a direct competitor to IFTTT. The site offers built-in Twitter integration, analogous to IFTTT's twitter-Pinboard recipe. I don't know what rights I would be assigning here, but this is not the way I want to find out." You should read the blog post, it's very insightful and sheds light on things that many of us might not have considered otherwise. Jason Snell has offered his take on this as well, he writes: If IFTTT sticks with this philosophy, it will rapidly become a lot less useful and interesting as a service.
goodwill (Score:3, Insightful)
Goodwill can be hard to get back. Tread lightly IFTTT.
TFS could be a little less obscure (Score:2, Informative)
Re:TFS could be a little less obscure (Score:5, Informative)
"IFTTT is a free web-based service that allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called "recipes", which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. IFTTT is an abbreviation of 'If This Then That'."
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IFTTT is primarily a web service which chain web services together like facebook to twitter.
If you want to chain app functions together on your Android phone, I suggest an app like Tasker. Tasker, by the way, is incredibly powerful if you use it "like a real man" as it support things like scripting and direct calls to the Android API.
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Re:TFS could be a little less obscure (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, real men use paper and pencil.
You mean tentative men. Men who might change their mind. Men who aren't confident, who aren't real.
REAL men, confident men, use paper and ink!
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Chuck Norris chisels in stone. With his bare hands!
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And here's the relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/378/
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You seem to be implying some level of standard for "real men" and the creation of children.
You clearly haven't been out in public lately and observed just who is procreating, because that's pretty far from reality.
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Wish I had mod points... this post is TOTALLY underrated! LOL.
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You guys are making this sound so complex.
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IFFT (Score:5, Funny)
I immediately clicked on the link mistakenly seeing what I thought was going to be a discussion advocating avoiding inverse fast fourier transforms.
I couldn't agree more, these convoluted summaries are confusing me on a periodic basis. I mean, this whole subject is no less than orthogonal to fast fourier transforms. That CEO they're quoting? He's not even trying to save phase.
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IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... (Score:4, Insightful)
This acronym is mentioned no less then 12 times in the summary. And yet I still have no fucking clue what it is or what it does.
Perhaps someone here could enlighten me?
Re:IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... (Score:4, Insightful)
How else can the poster boast about his intelligence, unless you use an obscure Acronym, and just expect everyone else to know it.
On Slashdot there is a wide variety of geeky interests, and we don't have the time to follow all of them.
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I thought he was trying to emulate Bill the Cat [iseethefrog.com].
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How else can the poster boast about his intelligence, unless you use an obscure Acronym, and just expect everyone else to know it. On Slashdot there is a wide variety of geeky interests, and we don't have the time to follow all of them.
This seems to be happening with more frequency here. Last week we had a similar post where the submitter was clearly upset about some sort of injustice and it involved something so obscure that I don't remember the name of it. It got a lot of "What the bleep is ________?" posts though.
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There's no excuse in 2016 to sit there and think to yourself, "Gee, I don't know what this thing is, let me post on some random message board asking other people about it"
Yes there is. It's called "expecting the supposedly professional providers of a tech-skewed news aggregation website to do their bloody simple jobs."
As interesting an idea as fully-linked hypertext is, humans are still far better as taking in written information linearly.
Call me lazy, but I come here to get news because I don't want to be bounced around teh interwebs.
All I ask is enough information so I can at least be reasonably sure about whether or not I want to go looking for more on the subject.
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That seems very ironic to me. I would expect a _non_ tech-skewed article about this to explain it... Not necessarily the summary to this article though. (I've never used it, BTW, but have heard about it, even in CNET videos which are pretty much 'normal user' coverage. Even the very few they call 'hard', aren't.)
Plus, the other implication still applies: L
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IFTTT is hardly up there with the Twitters and the Facebooks of the world.
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It also would help if the ACs search had the correct number of "T"s in it.
As the name of the application and website is IFTTT, I would kind of expect people to call it that, but maybe break out that it means "If This Than That", which is a website where you can setup actions based on things that happen with IoT devices, Web pages, or WHATEVER is accessible on the web.
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TFS is misleading (Score:3, Informative)
> Many don't necessarily want -- or can allow -- IFTTT to do that. . Pinboard, a social bookmarking website, falls in the latter category.
No, Pinboard already has perfectly working IFTTT support. IFTTT want to break this unless Pinboard develop to their custom API and sign a large legal document.
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Analogy (Score:5, Funny)
Did Maciej Ceglowski just use an analogy in which his users live in a sewer and his content is the shit he flushes down the drain?
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Did Maciej Ceglowski just use an analogy in which his users live in a sewer and his content is the shit he flushes down the drain?
No surprise there, considering that a "pinboard" is common Dutch slang for one of them ol' wooden shithouses.
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Did Maciej Ceglowski just use an analogy in which his users live in a sewer and his content is the shit he flushes down the drain?
We ARE talking about social media... so the analogy is perfect.
Re:Analogy (Score:5, Informative)
I very much doubt Pinboard pays IFTTT a damned thing, or has any contract with them. In fact, IFTTT is consuming Pinboard's product.
Pinboard isn't using a damned thing ... IFTTT is pulling content from Pinboard, and now is demanding that Pinboard write new code for a new API and sign a license detailing what can be done with that code. As I understand this, IFTTT wrote this, it exists independent of anything Pinboard has every done ... and now IFTTT is asserting that Pinboard needs to write new code and sign a license giving rights to IFTTT.
This is someone with whom Pinboard has no actual relationship, suddenly claiming Pinboard needs to do things for them and sign a contract.
I don't think Pinboard expects a damned thing, because Pinboard has no skin in the game for what IFTTT does.
To extend this metaphor ... this is the troll who lives in the sewer demanding you change the shape of your toilet to match his mouth, and that you stop eating cabbage because it's upsetting his stomach. The troll is in no damned position to make demands.
Pinboard did not write, does not own, and currently does not maintain any "client code", nor do they have an active relationship with IFTTT. IFTTT wrote client code for Pinboard, and is now demanding Pinboard write new code and sign a license about how that new code is used.
As I said, this is a complete shakedown by a 3rd party who claims the value provided by Pinboard only exists because of IFTTT.
Pinboard is rightly saying "fuck you, we have no relationship with you, and we're not doing any of this stuff"
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The impression I got was that Pinboard doesn't use IFTTT's API; IFTTT uses Pinboard's API but wants Pinboard to start using IFTTT's API for reasons that are only good to IFTTT.
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The impression I got was that Pinboard doesn't use IFTTT's API; IFTTT uses Pinboard's API but wants Pinboard to start using IFTTT's API for reasons that are only good to IFTTT.
What seems to be happening is that IFTTT is using Pinboard's API, or performing scraping of their HTML. IFTTT want to make all their "partners" provide an API for IFTTT to use, so it is easier for IFTTT to scrape their content. Some of their "partners" don't want to spend the time and money to write an API for their site to IFTTT's specifications, and don't want to sign a very one-sided legal contract with IFTTT.
IFTTT are then going out and telling their users that their "partners" no longer want to work wi
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Wow ... (Score:5, Insightful)
You know, reading that, it's hard not to think IFTTT (which I've never heard of) are being the dicks here ... YOU wrote a tool which scrapes content from other sites, and now YOU want THEM to conform to your API, as well as preventing 3rd parties from using your shit? And possibly give YOU rights to THEIR content and retain the right to change the license? Good luck with that.
This sounds like an illegal squatter suing the property owner to upgrade the plumbing and fix the leaky roof.
What, exactly, is IFTTT offering in return other than to say "in order to allow our users to access your site with our stuff, you have to agree to the following". Why would anybody accept random terms and conditions by a third party who merely redistributes your own stuff is a mystery to me.
Sorry, this sounds like a bit of bullshit shakedown, and expecting someone to take steps to support your stuff ... my answer would be to ignore them as well.
Everything about this sounds like childish, petulant and over-reaching behavior in which the 3rd party service is asserting some form of control over the original service so the 3rd party can retain their users. What makes you think the original service owes you a damned thing?
Two words: Fuck that.
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Squatters suing property owners seems crazy, until you remember it's america we're dealing with.
Re:Wow ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Notice the waaaa tag.
What's happening is IFTTT says, "We made a site that lets users do things with other sites. You didn't rewrite shim code for us, and the module for our site is ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AMONG OUR USERS; rewrite it for us or we remove you."
Pinboard guy is saying, "... what? Really? You capitalize heavily off integration with my site, and you want me to maintain your service?"
Re:Wow ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Not just maintain their service, but agree to terms of service IFTTT is imposing, and write new code for them.
Wait, what? You integrate with my stuff and you want me to agree to YOUR terms of service? Really? And write you code for free? Gee, sounds awesome.
What legal leg to stand on to IFTTT think they have here? This is a land grab, basically with the thinly veiled threat that IFTTT brings value to site owners, and that they should be signing their contract to keep that happening.
Again, this is so much bullshit it isn't even funny.
The people from IFTTT who wrote that shit are utterly delusional, and have apparently lost sight of the fact that they're providing access to someone else's stuff, and that someone else doesn't owe them a damned thing.
Who the hell would sign any rights away to some random asshole who says "since our stuff uses yours stuff you owe us something"?
I'd rewrite my own terms of service that says "if you're a third party accessing our stuff, or writing tools to access our stuff, you owe us 25% of your revenues" and then tell them to pay up or fuck off.
This is a street busker asserting copyright over the songs he sings. I hope nobody has ever actually signed this, because if they have they've essentially been robbed.
Re:Wow ... (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't see them being "delusional". They provide a free service both to users and to Pinboard. They simply are telling Pinboard that if they want continued service, then they need to contribute. I wouldn't be surprised if IFTTT at some point actually told sites they provide access to that they need to pay to be an IFTTT channel. That's not about "owing" anybody anything, it's a business proposition, and it's rooted in the fact that IFTTT provides a service that users like and that businesses may need to pay for if they want to receive it. You know, just like mail delivery, Internet service, and... sewer pipes.
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Again, bullshit.
IFTTT provides the same service to Pinboard as I do to Pepsi by not poisoning their product.
IFTTT makes money by providing something to access the content provided by someone else. That isn't providing a "service" to Pinboard, that's claiming Pinboard has no value without your service. Pinboard doesn't agree.
The only thing rooted in fact is IFTTT is now demanding someone else maintain the parts which allows IFTTT to generate money, and that in the process they should get consideration unde
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IFTTT doesn't generate money from users. In fact, I expect they generate, or will generate, money from sites they provide access to. That is, in the future, Pinboard would probably have to pay for being listed in IFTTT. This is all completely normal day-to-day business stuff: freemium models, for-pay infrastructure, loss leaders, etc.
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So, you agree that IFTTT is just a shakedown racket, with no business model other than conning people into maintaining their product, and with an over-inflated sense of the value what they bring to the table?
If your "business model" is "write connector for web sites, then demand those web sites maintain it and sign a license agreement with you", then you're little more than a c
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I can only speak for myself, and I find IFTTT limited by still useful. I've actually quit a for-pay service because it didn't provide IFTTT integration. YMMV
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They don't provide anything to Pinboard. They provide a service that allows IFTTT users to use pinboard. They've threatened to discontinue that relationship. The owner of Pinboard has told them to go fuck themselves. IFTTT can now withdraw support and see if this angers their user base. Whether this will work or not I guess would depend on how important Pinboard is to IFTTT's customers and vice versa for Pinboard's customers. If the relationship is terminated then I would wager one of them or both of them w
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There is a fair bit of misunderstanding in the original post.
At the end of the day, IFTTT provide a service. And they provide a means to provide content to / access content from the service. And from time to time they update it.
If you want to participate, then you need to implement the service, and if you want it to keep working, then you keep it up to date.
It's got nothing to do with anybody else "owing" IFTTT anything - IFTTT are just defining what it takes to provide their service.
Nobody is being forced
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That's a terrible analogy. This isn't a package delivery service, and the people most certainly could have gotten these "packages" where they already were -- the user can already reach that content. IFTTT isn't brokering access to something the user can't already access.
This is a 3rd party who has injected themselves into the conversation, now claims that the value they provide is indispensable to you, and then demands you do some extra work for them and sign a license saying the extra work they've asked you to do for them is their property.
IFTTT can provide all of the "service" they want. They provided that "service" without action or obligation on behalf of the sites whose content they "service". And now they're claiming that those sites need to take some action and sign a license. This is asking Pinboard to maintain shit IFTTT wrote, and sign a license agreement with IFTTT -- what moron would do that?
This has nothing at all to do with package delivery; this is more like sending something to a general delivery address, some guy coming in and saying "oh, I can take it to him", slapping a sticker on your package and them claiming you owe him for his services. Sorry, but nobody invited you to the party, so you don't get to claim you're owed something.
IFTTT wasn't engaged to provide a service on behalf of anybody but the users of IFTTT. Nobody owes IFTTT a fucking thing in this situation.
If a user employs a 3rd party service to fetch and manipulate the content of a web site, the value of that service is between the user and that 3rd party. The 3rd party can fuck off when it comes to making demands on the web site whose content they wrote connector code to access in the first place.
Package delivery service my ass. Making money off providing access to someone else's content and then expecting them to reward them for you it? As I said, complete and utter bullshit.
If the people who use IFTTT find it useful, and IFTTT wrote that "service" themselves, WTF do they expect people to suddenly adhere to the random demands of IFTTT??? IFTTT is in no position to expect anybody to do a damned thing to keep their "service" working, and they're certainly in no position to also attach licensing terms to anybody.
Who gives a shit what IFTTT want here? Randomly asserting someone owes you something because you wrote code to access their stuff is delusional and idiotic.
IFTTT wrote code to access the content on someone else's site. Telling that site they must now use a new API and sign terms of service with you? Oh hell no. You want your shit to keep working, you fucking write it.
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mod this up, imho.
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You apparently don't understand what IFTTT does. IFTTT isn't "brokering access" to content at all; they provide a simple (or simplistic) scripting engine that people find useful. Without IFTTT, users don't get that functionality because the original sites don't pro
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Many companies actually seem to want to become IFTTT channels because it makes their products more useful.
I think fewer will want to, once they understand the ridiculously one-sided terms IFTTT is offering.
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IFTTT doesn't "scrape", they connect to some REST or other RPC API; they usually need authentication for that as well. You don't become an IFTTT channel by accident. Furthermore, IFTTT is saying "we've done this for free using your APIs so far, but now we are going to change and un
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Oh, and what has really happened is your own customers arranged for the package to be delivered to you (the delivery company), the person sending the package has no relationship with the delivery company and has no idea why the delivery company is in any position to make demands.
Claiming the users couldn't get your package without redirecting it through you ... well, that's pretty much bullshit.
This is a company who has built a product around being a middle man, and now suddenly expects the source of their
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I don't understand your hostility. IFTTT simply said "if you want to continue to be an IFTTT channel, you need to provide these APIs and sign a service agreement". I expect that in the future, they will likely say "if you want to continue to be an IFTTT channel, you need to pay a subscription fee of $X/month". These are simple business propositions. If
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Well, then take all the words I've said about IFTTT, and read them again.
Right, because what we really want is a world in which every asshole with a startup and no business model randomly demands you pay them money to be part of their awesomeness because they believe you're only successful because of them -- I can imagine all of the stupi
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Now, the legal agreement and the email to the users were a nasty one-two punch: The email makes it look as if it has always been external websites' responsibility to write con
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If you are a business using a commercial package delivery company, that's exactly the sort of arrangements you make with them.
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Cool story. One question... (Score:4, Insightful)
Just one question...
What the bloody hell is IFTTT?
Like many of you, I use IFTTT.
I think you've overestimated.
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If only computing devices had some sort of a virtual pointer... One could use a dedicated peripheral to position this "pointer" over the green, underlined IFTT [wikipedia.org] in the article summary. One could then press a button on the controller for this "pointer" and have a document describing exactly what the hell "IFTT" stands for and what the "If this, then that" service it refers to does delivered to them.
But alas, it is futile dream.
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That sir, would be AMAZING! But what would you call it? I mean, somehow it joins, connects, even links two things together! Truly momentous! And it does it really fast, incredibly fast, faster than a person could type in the secondary thing. A speed that could be compared to hyper speed...
I have it, let's call it IncrediJoin!
Oh, and you should patent it, too...
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I have it, let's call it IncrediJoin!
Leonard of Quirm, is that you?
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Just one question...
What the bloody hell is IFTTT?
Did you try to look it up? [lmgtfy.com] This is "news for nerds," after all.
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No, I didn't, because I expect (in vain) the editors to do their job and make stories understandable for the great majority of their readership without having to refer to another website.
I don't think that's too much to ask of a site like this.
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No, I didn't, because I expect (in vain) the editors to do their job and make stories understandable for the great majority of their readership without having to refer to another website.
I don't think that's too much to ask of a site like this.
But they did do that. The first link in the summary is the wikipedia description of the service. This is hypertext, why write everything inline when a link is supposed to describe any term?
Unless of course the Slashdot editors added that in after posting.
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Because Hypertext in that fashion was never going to work, not really. I don't see why I should have to open a new tab and wait at the very least one second (they add up, y'know) and could be much longer (if it works at all) to find out what a decent editor could have explained, succinctly, with a few words. I could have taken in such information literally at a glance.
IFTTT Explained (Score:5, Informative)
For those of you geeks who see an abrevation they've never heard of and that is presented as some super high-tech thing that you should know (I know, I've had the same problem):
IFTTT [ifttt.com] (if this then that) is a commercial web service (free as in beer, but they want all your data, like Google or Facebook) that hooks together a slew of popular other services using API calls and probably a little scraping aswell to automate tasks and data migration using a neat and shiny web-based click-ui. Think Apples Automator on OS X, but for all those shiny Web SaaS thingies hippsters get a hard-on about these days.
The wannabees like to throw around "IFTTT" because it sounds really nerdy, geeky and high-tech and they get all giddy when their Linux admin looks really confused having never heard the word. But don't worry, they just use it to send smilies on facebook whenever they've taken a picture in instagram and stuff like that. Your Perl & Python scripts are just as indespensible as always - so no trouble here.
Glad I could help.
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Tasker works without Android?
Last time I looked at it, it was a pita to use. IFTTT watches my Dropbox for images to appear in a particular folder (the auto-storage for my desktop business card scanner), picks them up, transfers them to a specific notebook in my Evernote account, then deletes the image in the original location. Took all of 2 minutes to set up. I can't say that for anything I've ever tried to get Tasker to do on my Phone.
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Tasker works without Android?
Last time I looked at it, it was a pita to use. IFTTT watches my Dropbox for images to appear in a particular folder (the auto-storage for my desktop business card scanner), picks them up, transfers them to a specific notebook in my Evernote account, then deletes the image in the original location. Took all of 2 minutes to set up. I can't say that for anything I've ever tried to get Tasker to do on my Phone.
I don't get it. So your scanner is set to place documents in place A. This utility moves them from A to B. Why not just set the scanner to place the documents in place B?
I read the summary and the wikipedia entry on this thing, and still can't figure out why'd I'd use it. Weather alerts? My weather app does that. Alerts for blogs I follow? Congrats, you've invented the RSS feed. Send an email when I use this twitter hashtag? If I want to send an email, why don't I just send an email instead of using twitter
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You're on slashdot, complaining about things being too automated. WTF, I mean seriously. Maybe you should find a site with a more appropriate geek level.
Chances are very good that the scanner software cannot automatically place images into a document, but can automatically save documents into a folder.
Option A:
Open scanner software, hit scan, done.
Option B:
Open scanner software, hit scan, get to image in a folder or desktop, start evernote, create new note, drag image into new note.
the good thing about IFTTT (Score:2)
New acronym (Score:2)
IF That Then Fuckoff.
IFTTT (Score:5, Interesting)
I used IFTTT for all of about twenty seconds. It seemed interesting but once you advance beyond "take this data and send it to Twitter, take that data and send it to Facebook", it becomes useless. I wanted to use my smartphone's built-in abilities more and IFTTT wasn't giving me the capabilities. I found an app called Automate [google.com] that lets you set up a process flow to do things such as upload to Google Drive or an FTP server, send e-mails, take photos with the camera, etc.
Wisely, the app comes with minimal permissions and you need to enable further permissions as scripts require them. For example, I wrote a script that takes a photo of someone if they don't put in my correct unlock code and e-mails that photo to me. Of course, before this script could work, I needed to grant Automate access to my camera. If I remove the script, I can easily disable the access and keep Automate from accessing the camera in the future. Much more powerful than IFTTT.
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I'm not on Marshmallow. I'm still running Android 5.1. The appearance is of installing "sub-apps" (albeit from the main app, not from the Google Play store). You need camera access, you need to have the application's camera module installed which will request the appropriate access.
How doesn't a sub-app take the user to Play Store? (Score:2)
In other words, you implemented the plug-in model [stackexchange.com] where each app provides a service to the main app. But how does your main app trigger the installation of sub-apps on the user's device? I thought the user had to confirm installation of all packages through the Google Play Store app unless the user turns on developer-oriented options, such as "Unknown sources" or "Enable USB debugging". Or does turning on a feature that requires a sub-app present a notice of what is about to happen next and then take the us
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You might have mistaken. This isn't my app. This was developed by someone else (LlamaLab). I just downloaded and used the app.
As far as prompts go, I have to correct my previous statement. (I was typing from memory.) I just looked it up and there are separate apps for things like "Automate Network", "Automate Storage", "Automate location", etc. Each app has permissions just for it's particular area and each app is listed in the Google Play store. The overarching Automate app simplifies the install by
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Only YOU can prevent "stories" like this. (Score:2, Informative)
So many problems with IFTTT (Score:2, Offtopic)
I mainly use IFTTT in concert with my Hue lighting (which is all through my house). Here are my main observations:
1. It is _really_ slow. Like terribly slow. I have a Recipe on there to change the color of my lights when my favorite football team starts a game... it usually changes the lights sometime during the second quarter! Useless
2. The fact that there is only one "if" clause damns it into being just a "toy". For instance, it can turn my lights on and off as I come and go from my house. Awesome
This is the first I've heard of IFTTT (Score:2)
This is the first I've heard of IFTTT, and I'm wary of it because I'm not sure if I'm being COND.
That post is FANTASTIC (Score:2)
That's simply a fantastic trashing of a silly move. Quoting the ruinous parts of their secretive agreement is just icing on the cake. Absolutely brutal.
Not even hiding it anymore... (Score:2)
Blatant product advert is blatant.
He is not a lawyer, and might be wrong (Score:2)
Going by the extracts, the agreement out to him might not do what he says it does.
There might be diverting in the definitions that changes that, but I doubt it. More likely, this guy is just being a jerk who is too cheap to pay a lawyer to review the agreement and advise him, even though it seems he has the money to do so.
From TFA, it seems that IFTTT has just gotten it's hands on done venture capital. One of the first things incoming venture capital will do is require regularisation of important ad hoc
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Why is it Pinboard should be doing any agreement at all with IFTTT? It's nice that they have money now, but they want him to do work and make promises while they sit on their asses. They have apparently told the users that the Pinboard interface is going down if Pinboard doesn't do something, but they've given Pinboard NO reason to do anything but mock them.
Sorry, if they were asking Pinboard for a promise to give notice before changing Pinboard's API? Perhaps that might be reasonable for Pinbaord to consid
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Yet another "entitled" idiot. The regularizing of relationships and copyright licenses are for IFTTT's purposes, not for Pinboard's. Pinboard has no obligation to accept any business proposal, and certainly no obligation to spend time and/or money considering one. If IFTTT wants an agreement, IFTTT needs to make it worth Pinboard's while to consider it. This includes not making a prima facie unacceptable first offer.
Just because your new VCs say you need something is not a reason for me to give it to
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Pinboard already offers some of what IFTTT does, and she even lists alternatives. The agreement looks like its pretty much a death sentence if you agree to it, as well.
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Not that I use it, but IFTTT should work on a Priv just fine, and probably on a Q10, Z30, or Passport if it's running 10.3.