#11 - June 20, 2011, 4:17 a.m.
06/19/2011 05:34 PMPosted by
Nilah Why is it that some entities get early access and the remainder of the community does not? It's basically selective treatment.
We've provided several of our partners (ie Heroic Prints, Figure Prints, Steel Series, etc) with access to help transition them away from the old API to the new API. It is selective treatment and there is nothing wrong with it. The old armory is still available; nothing has been taken away.
06/19/2011 05:34 PMPosted by
Nilah Who are they? Why do they get the early access? What are the requirements to apply? And, lastly, where does one apply for early access? It's seems obvious that on one here knows how to do that, so does that mean that you chose who gains early access?
Frankly, none of your business. If we've contacted certain people or groups for feedback, it is because we wanted specific feedback on key features that we know that they consume.
06/19/2011 05:34 PMPosted by
Nilah Do you really think that a couple of "high" profile groups will offer you more feedback than the entire community? We're pretty good at what we do, some of us make our living with programming, some do it for fun, but we can all contribute to the beta testing and feedback process for all of the APIs. So, why are you not giving us access and why are you letting a small group of users tell you what they want?
Yes. It doesn't make any sense to open up completely given the size of the community and the vast amount of data available. We've taken this time to slowly increase API load and widen the scope of data accessed, which is good for us and good for the community.
There are a few things that need to be cleaned up before the API is available. We expect to be done with the remaining tasks within the next week or two. I'll look into releasing the API documentation as soon as possible, even if that means before the API itself is ready to let developers read over the features and data structures.
