Guardian's Little Helper

[Fugazi]

As I understand it I think they wanted to put it in but Betfair didn't want them to. Nothing to stop someone else though

Ah makes sense. Possibly because it allows people to disengage. They want people to have Betfair at the front of their mind.

Well thats my tin foil hypothesis

Betfair didn't want people constantly pulling down the latest markets, so they have never given us approval for this feature.

How do you mean? You mean adding too much liquidity early that they distract from the more upcoming stuff ?

[jamesedwards]

Ah makes sense. Possibly because it allows people to disengage. They want people to have Betfair at the front of their mind.

Well thats my tin foil hypothesis

Betfair didn't want people constantly pulling down the latest markets, so they have never given us approval for this feature.

How do you mean? You mean adding too much liquidity early that they distract from the more upcoming stuff ?

Presumably system stress. If you could pull up markets automatically then it would be a race to the bottom and before you know it everyone would be refreshing every second trying to be the first to new markets.

It's a shame Betfair don't at least allow BA users to automatically populate on a fixed max refresh cycle. Once an hour or something.