Apollo / Reddit app, API shenanigans.

Pretty much all 3rd party apps are. What I find so embarrassing are the lies Reddit are throwing out.

I’m 99% sure their dev lead hasn’t programmed a day in his life.
 
sanaxe1 said:
The issue is there own app is crap and a lot of people will leave when the app they have been using for years stops functioning . It's Digg 2.0
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Theres a lot of noise on reddit people are not happy basically they're shutting down access to all 3rd party apps and only their ad-ridden, telemetry collecting official one will still work. Ok and OldReddit is being shut down too apparently you know the version with the original style that wasn't actually garbage to read the site I visit is talking about closing as apparently all the moderation tools will cease too something like that theres some issue with it. I think I'll probably be done with it too.

Mesai said:
Pretty much all 3rd party apps are. What I find so embarrassing are the lies Reddit are throwing out.

I’m 99% sure their dev lead hasn’t programmed a day in his life.
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Reddit are the very definition of corporate rats, corporats, CP2077 anyone? Anyway they pay little to no regard to anything that goes on on their sites they have a sweep once every six months or so to clear out all the pirate and other illegal activity reddits which are promptly back within a day or two under a slightly different name and will remain so until the next six monthly sweep. Just to keep ever so slightly under the legal barrier with the absolute bare minimum of effort. Total scumbaggery.
 
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Part of the reason reddit is so big is because of third party apps that made it much easier and more attractive to use the platform. Yes they have no obligation to provide free access to their APi but they are shooting themselves in the foot if they don't.

Thats ignoring user/subs backlash. The biggest issue seems to be that their pricing is ******* mental and will 100% kill any app that needs heavy usage.
 
I honestly can't and don't use 'normal' reddit and found redreader to be perfect for my viewing.
I can't see myself bothering with Reddit anymore after it shuts down. Probably for the best tbh!
 
I only use forums on desktop (eyesight issue), so this doesn't affect me directly, but if Reddit does destroy itself, then it's bad news imo because Reddit was the nearest in terms of social media to being a forum. I.e. a forum where people interacted with each other by actually making reply posts like here on OcUK as opposed to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram where it's mostly +1 / likes, posts being shared / re-tweeted or virtue-signalling / politics such as yellow/blue Ukraine flag or Je Suis Charlie (French flag) in their avatars.
 
It's crap. My reddit app of choice (RiF) is shutting down on the 30th, and that's my reddit usage gone with it. Even putting aside the bombardment of ads the official app is way too obsessed with pushing content on me than letting me see what I want, and considering one of the API devs said no changes were happening a day before all this was announced I put absolutely zero stock in their claims old reddit will stick around for long.
 
ci_newman said:
Reddit introduces API.

3rd party apps strip adverts out of Reddit.

Reddit loses revenue.

Reddit monetises API.

3rd party apps - surprised Pikachu face.

That's the TL: DR version. Reddit is a business, businesses need to make money to operate.
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Completely missing the point.

3P devs were told just a few months ago nothing was going to change in 2023. Then a couple of months ago they were told API would be costed, but Reddit didn't provide a price. They kept 3PD waiting for nearly two months, then announced insanely high API charges with barely 30 days to implement them. None of the 3PD were against the API charges, even to the point of welcoming them, but not at the amount they were asking for (something to the tune of 20x the price of what Reddit gets per non-subscribed user through their normal adverts). Not only that, the API is stunted, and was going to be further stunted with the NSFW changes.

Reddit have stated they aren't making any profit from having over 450,000,000 active users - maybe they should have been looking at themselves before trying to recoup $20m/year out of 0.2% of those users (Apollo had just over 1m active users per month, with around 50,000 of those paying for Apollo Ultra).
 
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