Why we architect around platform API changes

Every platform we integrate with — Twitch, YouTube, Discord, Spotify, OBS — ships breaking changes on its own timeline, with varying amounts of warning. A tool built assuming today's API shape stays stable is a tool that quietly breaks a few months later, usually during someone's live broadcast.

That's why integration code gets an abstraction layer between "what the platform gives us" and "what our tool relies on" from day one. It costs more time upfront. It's also the difference between a quick patch and a rewrite when an endpoint gets deprecated.

We'll use this space to flag platform changes that actually affect the tools we build, as they happen.