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Here's hoping to seeing lots of stars in the near future!
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:03PM
Absolutely not. We're just going to be allowing them to do things that hammer our database harder than we'd normally allow. I can't give you an example off the top of my head except for full comments history and lack of posting delays as I'm fairly certain we've not implemented any others. Yet.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by goodie on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:16PM
ok so to be clear we are not talking direct DB access for querying purposes like was mentioned at some point in the past few weeks/months? Just to be clear, because I would have been interested in that to draw some trends on SN data :)
I am guessing then that will be implemented in the form of "restricted" features accessible through the site itself.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:30PM
Right, website features. I think what was previously discussed was hosting your own db on our servers as part of a subscription but that's not in planning at the moment that I know of. We can't exactly go giving out database access to our production db with a list of every user's email address in it; that's just not going to happen unless we all wake up evil one morning.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by edIII on Thursday August 28 2014, @07:16PM
Well.. then let's hope you guys don't run out of coffee.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.