This is a very selective API oriented transcript fragment of Jeffs Code Camp Video Interview:
Purpose
Please note that this transcript fragment is mainly a supporting post to decrease the length of Could/Should the API evolve more agile rather than being blocked by v2 writing (and authentication) features? and as such only intended as an orientation for those inclined to view the original quote and not necessarily accurate/precise regarding wording/phrasing! Feel free to correct/amend things, but please keep this intention in mind, thanks!
Legend
- MH is Mehul Harry, JA is Jeff Atwood
Topic: mobile site
JA (19:00): I'm kinda torn on this [...] it splits your effort
JA (20:04): on Stack Overflow it's not the primary goal to be a mobile site
Topic: Stack Apps API
JA (20:16): [...] read only [...] very hard problem with content coming from an API [...] we are not trying to solve that
MH (20:40): Why is that hard, to allow to posting content?
JA (20:44): [...] duplicate handling [...] hints [...] none of that would be visible from an API [...] that's probably the main concern, and then there are rate limiting issues and [...]
JA (21:14): Another argument of splitting effort, rather than having content coming in on just one pipe, where we can apply the same rules to, now we have this other pipe [...]
MH (21:24): You don't want to take away the value that's part of the UI?
- JA (21:28): Yeah, the UI is helping [...] there's a lot of ambient information present on the website, how would that even be presented in an external app we can't control? I'm fine with reading [...] but one of the quickest way to ruin a Q&A system is to flood it with bad questions - now I'm not sayin having a write API would cause that, but anything that risks that is a very very serious risk.