User feedback when Github rate limit exceeded for unauthenticated users

[coleshaw]

Hello OERPub team. I ran into this issue today and figured it would have been nice to receive some sort of warning / notification without having to dig into Chrome dev tools. When I went to demo the book editor without logging into my Github account, I hit their rate limit:

{
message: "API rate limit exceeded for XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)",
documentation_url: "http://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"
}

The current behavior in the UI is to tell the user that the demo-book bookshelf is invalid (please select another), which was confusing and not entirely accurate...

[kathi-fletcher]

Agreed. This has been bugging me, also and is a real problem for demoing,
breaking the great model that anyone can try this out.

Kathi

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:57 PM, cjshawMIT [email protected] wrote:

Hello OERPub team. I ran into this issue today and figured it would have
been nice to receive some sort of warning / notification without having to
dig into Chrome dev tools. When I went to demo the book editor without
logging into my Github account, I hit their rate limit:

{
message: "API rate limit exceeded for XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)",
documentation_url: "http://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"
}

The current behavior in the UI is to tell the user that the demo-book
bookshelf is invalid (please select another), which was confusing and not
entirely accurate...

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