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rob05c  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do we know anything about the current status of the Hubski API?

    would like to see how friend groups have changed over time but I imagine that data wouldn't have been recorded

It isn't, and we have no plans to.

    so it'll have to be a script to take snapshots and put it all together.

Yep. Though I'm not sure it's as interesting as you think.

    how friend groups have changed over time

I suspect most people gain followers and following, and lose very little. You could make a record of who got pissed off at who and when, for whatever that's worth. But I doubt there's much more than that.





thundara  ·  3418 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    It isn't, and we have no plans to.

Not sure if this would be a bug or feature request then, but could you all add exact time-stamps as mouse-overs to the "X minutes / hours ago" labels? Then the information is available if someone wants to parse / filter the data on their end, and it adds a slight bit of information for users who care about that sort of thing.

(Posting old archives though would probably be annoying to users that edit / delete their comments, too)

rob05c  ·  3418 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Even if we don't add a mouseover, we could add a hidden tag with the data for scrapers.