"We built the system to stay within the limits of 3600 calls per hour, however it seems that a surge of imports pushed it over the threshold before we could throttle it back."
It sounds like they designed it to stay within the rate limits, but had a bug, so it didn't.
"We’re a bit surprised that the key was disabled almost immediately after we reached the limit."
Is it crazy to think that Flickr abides by the rate limiting they advertise? Isn't that just like "truth in advertising"? The onus is on you to stay within that rate.
"We thought about creating a new api key but didn’t know if that would be flagged as abuse."
Is there really any part of your gut that says no? Do you think Flickr would implement a rate limiting policy if they were okay with people creating an unlimited number of keys so that it serves no point?
Sorry to be so negative, but... Is this really news?
It sounds like they designed it to stay within the rate limits, but had a bug, so it didn't.
"We’re a bit surprised that the key was disabled almost immediately after we reached the limit."
Is it crazy to think that Flickr abides by the rate limiting they advertise? Isn't that just like "truth in advertising"? The onus is on you to stay within that rate.
"We thought about creating a new api key but didn’t know if that would be flagged as abuse."
Is there really any part of your gut that says no? Do you think Flickr would implement a rate limiting policy if they were okay with people creating an unlimited number of keys so that it serves no point?
Sorry to be so negative, but... Is this really news?