[1]Michael Love on Twitter:

     My general rule of thumb is that unless you're a) paying for it and
     also b) those payments represent a significant source of revenue for
     the company offering it, it's never worth investing significant
     effort to rely on a third-party API.

   Medium is the current poster child for this, but myriad examples before
   and since Google killed of Reader exist.

   Free/Open Source Software & Services suffer different ailments, such as
   developer abandonment and discoverability. At least with F/OSS the
   source code is available so someone else can carry on.
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   My original entry is here: [2]On Medium & Relying on 3rd Parties. It
   posted Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:50:22 +0000.
   Filed under: tech,

References

   1. https://twitter.com/elkmovie/status/1090618232657113089
   2. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=2578