- Imagine if your sewer pipe started demanding that you make major changes in your diet.
Now imagine that it got a lawyer and started asking you to sign things.
You would feel surprised.
This is the position I find myself in today with IFTTT, a form of Internet plumbing that has been connecting peaceably to my backend for the past five years, but which has recently started sending scary emails.
I am consistently amazed at CEO responses and how little they say in so many words.
What! I had no idea. I really like IFTTT - it doesn't do much for me, but it pushes my morning weather update at a certain time (why do so few weather apps do that?), changes my phone's background based on the top post on reddit's EarthPorn sub, and texts people on their birthdays for me. Because let me tell you, as the girl who forgot her own mother's birthday last year, I am atrocious at this.
I love the idea of IFTTT too, even have a bunch of recipes set up to disseminate photos of my cats to all their social media profiles. As a programmer I could even make a custom IFTTT for me, but I'm far too lazy. I just hope that they either change their mind or someone else steps in and does a better job.