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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 208 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 117 points 1 year ago

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

[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year 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 14 points 1 year ago

Take your up vote and get out.

[-] supimacat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

brb pulling up with the riemann integral

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 91 points 1 year 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 35 points 1 year ago

Wayland is the way of the future!

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

I’m waiting for them to merge with Yutanee

[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

This is great news!

[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

🎉🎉🎉

[-] Bye@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year 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 23 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.

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 1 year 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.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 18 points 1 year 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 39 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 15 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Oh 💩

[-] Synthead@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] ____@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[-] joemo@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I know it will not happen, can they revert the UI changes? At least let me declutter the UI 🤢

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

“Slack Gives X the Axe”

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