Imzy is useless without tipping.

I created /lua back when tipping was enabled. Then it got disabled. Then I stopped bothering, because it's useless without tipping.

I personally noticed ppl stopped posting as often when tipping got disabled. You might not have noticed that, but I did. Tipping had a pretty clear impact on Imzy so why not bring it back?

Could the tipping UX be improved? Definitely. We should be able to make tipping history public, and an API for bots to integrate with tipping would also help. Being able to send tips through comments (adding a comment with a public tip on it) would also be interesting, and combined with an API, could be used with bots for tip-based actions.

So, imzy is useless without tipping. However, it'd be even more useful if tipping had some sort of API - even if the API was just for handling posts and getting a recent tips list.

Obviously, now that imzy is dead, this is never gonna happen. But I had hopes.


Have you ever used dogetipbot on reddit? It's a tipping bot and tipping can be done through comments. Tips can be private (through PM) or public (through comments), and public tips can carry a message. Such messages can contain commands for other bots, which may require a dogetipbot tip in order to process those commands. It's a really interesting thing.