Friend List API: Relationships with Privacy Built In
Model invitations, accepted connections, blocking, and visibility as distinct rules rather than one unrestricted array.
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Permissions & privacy
Decide who can see, change, export, or remove each record. These articles connect permission boundaries to the actual lists people use.
Mailing List API: Design Better Discussion Membership
Model members, owners, moderation, and delivery preferences for discussion lists without confusing membership with marketing.
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Email Newsletter List API: Subscribers, Not Just Addresses
Keep audience membership, preferences, suppression, and delivery history separate when designing newsletter integrations.
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Contacts List API: Clean Records, Careful Connections
Preserve contact identity, keep field provenance, and treat merging and exporting as deliberate decisions.
Read the guideThese guides approach the same theme through different kinds of records. Compare the field ownership and lifecycle choices, rather than assuming that the same schema works for every list.