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Mo Validation Mo Problems (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] theit8514@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

IMO as a developer this is a sane change. There's no telling when the format of the first-party api key will change. They may switch from reference tokens to JWT tokens tomorrow. The validation should be using the token and seeing if it works.

[–] Dupelet@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

If they had made the change for that reason, sure. But the actual stated cause was some pretty thing.