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Maybe petition the Lemmy devs to not pointlessly break API v3 since they're moving to v4?
Isn't the whole point of having different api versions to not break compatibility, so apps can continue using v3?
Yep, and that's how we do API versioning at work. One app is on like API v9 now, and I think we support back to v5 or maybe even v4.
Their justification is that pre v1.0, you can break whatever you want whenever you want. But when you've got a large community of people developing for the ecosystem over several years, it's kind of a slap in the face to keep breaking the API. I appreciate that 0.19.0 - 0.19.11 has been fairly stable, but breaking v3 while also rolling out v4 is just inexcusable.
I get that v3 will eventually need to be deprecated and apps move to v4, but you'd think they'd put all their breaking changes in v4, let v4 stabilize and run concurrently with v3, and then drop v3 a few versions down the line. Except a few paid apps, I don't think most of us are doing this full time and have other things to deal with.
But what do I know? It's not like I do this for a living. Oh, wait...
In a comment one of the main devs mentioned worst case scenario that they could be supporting 0.19 for a long time so they're trying not to rush 1.0.