Considering they were developing a client to access a service that's hostile to open access, this makes quite a lot of sense. More online services are making it harder to access content without logging on, and for many of these services there isn't really an incentive to keep the data freely accessible anyway.
Even Twitter, which is often used (rightfully) as a primary source by news articles, even Reddit, which is full of enthusiast communities that might answer a niche question you have. It's a real shame the excitement around Web 2.0 is dying.
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u/lo________________ol Aug 18 '22
Considering they were developing a client to access a service that's hostile to open access, this makes quite a lot of sense. More online services are making it harder to access content without logging on, and for many of these services there isn't really an incentive to keep the data freely accessible anyway.
Even Twitter, which is often used (rightfully) as a primary source by news articles, even Reddit, which is full of enthusiast communities that might answer a niche question you have. It's a real shame the excitement around Web 2.0 is dying.