On: Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API

[istjohn]

I'd rather my request fail with an error than have it be silently truncated.

[aiisjustanif → istjohn]

While a developer might like that, but an end user expecting a notification that gets nothing now will be asking, “Why do I not get notifications?”.

[catsarebetter → istjohn]

Agreed, any kind of error message is better than nothing. Makes my code calling the API really hard to read and debug