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API's been down with zero explanation since the beginning of May. Really disappointed with the lack of communication from staff. With the recent announcement from Jacob about Fakku going 100% legitimate, there's zero reason for them to do anything with the API in the future aside from paid content. That's a miniscule amount of content right now and so the API is probably hidden from the public for a long while.
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Night Echo wrote...
API's been down with zero explanation since the beginning of May.It worked for a few days near the end of May when controversial content came back, then it just kinda died again for no reason.
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Night Echo wrote...
API's been down with zero explanation since the beginning of May. Really disappointed with the lack of communication from staff. With the recent announcement from Jacob about Fakku going 100% legitimate, there's zero reason for them to do anything with the API in the future aside from paid content. That's a miniscule amount of content right now and so the API is probably hidden from the public for a long while.What other reason does he need than having people develop great new features he can easily implent into the primary site's functionality.
I wrote FAKKU+ with that thought in mind, and it is now essentially a web application with the majority of the site's content served over the API.
Not only does it drastically reduce bandwidth consumption through effective caching and generating almost all HTML through the client but it uses new, purposefully designed and personizable comic metadata views that far outclass those used by any other comic viewing platform out there.
And it also provides an easy way for other developers to create expressive new plugins and modules in short time using powerful functions and ontologically professional data structures ready for the semantic web. The icing on the cake: everything from the enhanced notification system to the comic views can be run standalone with a few minor changes.
Of course, all that is dead without a functioning API.
The idea that FAKKU would not benefit from or has no reason to provide the public access to the API is simply not true.
Personally I don't think Jacob is the kind of guy who would make such a decision out of greed and corporate insecurity. Well probably get the API in full again once they figure out a few things on the security end and fix more immediate problems that are noticeable by regular users. Plus the site has been constantly upgrading for a while now. You might be surprised at just how different the site markup looked not even a year ago.