New Direct Messages List API is super slow

BigZaphod · 2018-04-04T20:02:58.818Z

I’ve been implementing the new Direct Messages REST API and the list API is very slow to receive new message events. I’m seeing a delay in the 1 to 2 minute range from the time I send a DM from one account to the time that the new list API has it for the recipient account. I get the streaming event instantly, of course - it’s just the REST API that seems to have a huge lag time. Is this expected or temporary behavior?

andypiper · 2018-04-05T15:11:55.119Z

This is expected. This is a fill-in behaviour to supplement the Account Activity API, rather than something that should be assumed to be near real-time. I’m unable to comment on the specific latency, however.

BigZaphod · 2018-04-05T15:54:10.841Z

Unfortunately we haven’t been granted access to the Account Activity API. This is all a bit frustrating since I wanted to get on top of this change, did a bunch of work, changed a bunch of app internals to support the new format, and now… it’s a much worse user experience which can only maybe be made better in our case by yet another new API that we don’t even have access to.