Hey, me to, in 2013. :-) I had over 300 "friends" on facebook. I deleted them all. :-D 2010-2012 were funny times on FB though, I even was a FB app developer. Do FB apps still exists? Or a MCP apps the new FB apps now?
I don't think I've ever used a facebook app, but yeah 2010-2012 seemed like there was actually community, but I wouldn't say it was as "magical" as early myspace. I feel like 2013 was the year where toxicity began to spread its wings on the internet, and facebook was the nest.
I have a similar experience with OpenAI. Just want to apply with my MCP App, but the application process, a multi step automated form submission, is totally flawed, buggy and broken, so that the form for apps submissions is simply not working. Trying to report this bug just results in an AI response black hole on their support address. No real humans there. The whole OpenAI back end platform is unbelievably buggy, nothing works. No wonder, if you cannot report _their_ bugs. I cannot advertise a MCP App for ChatGPT to the users of my platform, if there isn't a minimum level of trust, between OpenAI and me. If I cannot talk to a real human I simply do not take the brand of my platform, where I put countless years of effort in, and throw it in some out-of-control venture company maelstrom.
I used to use DarkSky for the "history data" for my platform. Querying weather for certain points in the past at certain locations. DarkSky was great for that until they were bought by Apple. Now I am using VisualCrossing for historical data. Hope Acme plans to do historical data too. But if it is US only then it is a no-go anyway.
If you build microservices you should always assume that links go down! So what is the deal here? Think about it as a feature to make your application more error prone. :-)
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