Telegram Bot Platform is dying(medium.com) |
Telegram Bot Platform is dying(medium.com) |
The other complaint is that the API doesn't use REST properly. Judging from the docs, it looks like a JSON interface for a SOAP API. It's not the most favoured technology but it's not the end of the world either. Besides, there are SDKs which abstract most of the complexity away, if necessary: https://core.telegram.org/bots/samples
'This is confusing, non-standard, and creates additional complexity'. Is it confusing and adding complexity? All you have to do is look down the list for what you want, it's hardly complex. It's not as if they're naming methods 'obtainChat', 'getUser', 'retrieveLogs', etc.
Which leaves the documentation on the website, which I find quite easy to follow. But let's say it is confusing and it's not as good as it should be. Does that mean the platform is dying? I didn't realise that designing an API to not use all HTTP verbs was such a big deal.