@rrhoover we've partnered with some other writing apps to build integrations for medium, so things like offline writing are now possible. we've also launched an IFTTT channel https://ifttt.com/medium which has some cool use cases too (save new beyonce gifs to medium drafts, v useful.) but you can also do things like connect to the sunlight foundation and leverage medium's open licensing to publish bills that are signed into law.

@rrhoover A good deal of the credit is also due to @ktzhu and @kylehardgrave, plus the fine folks at Ulysses who helped us smooth some rough edges :) Part of the fun of APIs is that I can't really predict all the fantastic ways people will use it. Algorithmically generated found poetry from Tweets? Illustrated by photos from 500px/Flickr? Automatic reporting of neighbourhood crime statistics? Like @ktzhu, I'm particularly excited though by the combination of the API and permissive licensing, with Medium as a vessel for important information and ideas that should be shared.

@majelbstoat @ktzhu wow, nice! I didn't know you had an IFTTT channel already. I have some ideas on how we could create a rad Product Hunt publication with some of this new functionality. Brb! 😀

@rrhoover I was wondering what all the buzz was about with the new logo. Turns out, *this* is the game-changer. I'm not making any predictions but I'm excited to see bold moves by Medium.

@rrhoover It's all about growth and ecosystem view. I just hope it didn't finish like the situation that some developers faced with Twitter API (suddenly restrictions that killed lots of apps)

@rrhoover @rodrigoprior Yeah, I call that "platform creep" Definition: When a platform encourages novelty, but captures the new function instead of the generated value.

@eric3000 can't wait to have a plugin on WP to do that :D

@eric3000 Do I sense a Sublime Text straight to Medium plugin in the works? Be still my heart!

@jpvalery @eric3000 here ya go! https://github.com/Medium/medium...

@mbavio curious about what you'd like to do with it?

@chrismessina Well, imagine that you can recreate popular pieces and give them unique designs, I'm thinking of early concepts of Medium like this one: https://dribbble.com/shots/15261... I know, you could copy/paste the content manually, but I'm thinking it would be great to be able to do it directly with a Medium API (likes also maybe).

@jameskoole Exactly what I was thinking about. If they are so worry about content and words, why not to let it fly away freely if they want? I would love to have a Reading API in order to play with different designs for brilliant pieces on Medium.

@mbavio @jameskoole To @rodrigoprior's point about other APIs, we want to avoid giving you something and then taking it away. We intend to evolve the API very deliberately. A way of getting your posts programmatically is clearly going to be valuable. @jameskoole, can you describe the errors in the RSS feeds? We can definitely look at fixing those.

@majelbstoat @jameskoole It's great to see this mindset about Medium's API. I think it should work exactly this way... <3

@majelbstoat what kind of rate limiting will we see? thanks! 😄

@rometty_ @majelbstoat Hey! There is rate-liming in place, but I won't go into specifics just yet. We're likely to dynamically adjust it once we see a pattern in the data, and we'll be watching closely for abuse.