The post explains it a really high level, but the original plan was going to be a disaster. Users generally aren't very technically inclined, as soon as the daily free tier was hit they tended to get pissed when the API said "this requester has no ratings" and then they did, in fact, have a ton of ratings.
Which is a complaint you see kinda frequently w/ MTS nowadays since its already on a cached system like that. Moving TVJS to it wasn't something I wanted to do.
A # of other things as well, but in general the gap between "plan" and "execution" was going to be impossible to overcome after sending it out to real human beings (most of whom were already intimately familiar w/ TV & still didn't really pick it up well)
Even if you don't find the API useful for one reason or another, you'll always be able to just load up the website to get the same information w/o having to pay. TVJS will be tracking AA time pretty closely nowadays, which may be one of the more asked for pieces of information we lost from the www transition though, so hopefully it'll have some useful stuff for everyone.Thanks everyone for the info!
I guess I'll see how much I use it between now and March and then decide if I'll pay for it monthly.
AFAIK, TO will be hanging around so you wont be left high & dry as far as pretty colors go.
As long as you think red is a pretty color, at least
If there's something I can clear up to help please let me know. I don't venture out very often so generally I just live w/ the feedback I get on TV as far as clarity/planning/etc. Since most of those people get my every thought on design/planning/etc day to day I'm sure there's a lot of information I could add to fill in the gaps, I'm just not sure what it is
