Apollo / Reddit app, API shenanigans.

[FnG]magnolia said:
Reddit is awful and if this helps it being less awful, or not being around at all, or both, then good.
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It's only awful if all you are browsing on it are awful subs. So that says more about you than anything else!

The vast majority of my subbed subs are about animals being funny, baby elephant gifs, cockatiels, dogs with jobs, cats being derp, humans being bros, animals being bros, animals being jerks (lol) and generally all manner of interesting and cool things.

Be the change you want to see.
 
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Mr Rossman sums up the blackout quite well, it does more damage to the users if they tell Reddit they're ****** off with them but they'll be back in 2/3 days as opposed to just doing a blackout indefinitely
 
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ci_newman said:
This is PRECISELY the entitlement I was referring to.

It's a business that you are actively looking to harm, because they changed their business model? It's one thing to stop using it, that's your choice. But to actively attack it? Stinks of entitlement.

I've used the official app for a long time on mobile, it's fine. People are crying because they won't get a completely free service any longer via ad-free 3rd party apps.

The platform is better off without toxic individuals like that.
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Then it will die like Dig did, which is now the main goal. Subreddits including main front page default ones are going dark.

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com www.reddit.com

It isn't about being entitled, its about capitalism. You can't have it both ways. The Reddit CEO could work with 3rd parties, instead he has chosen to not only combat them with the API changes, but has been caught out lying about negotiations, utterly disgraceful and in bad faith (were it not for Apollo's recording of the call, which the Reddit CEO didn't realise was happening due to Canadian laws being different). Now he has been shown to not only be making a destructive business decision for people who work with Reddit, but is also a horrific person in general, the consumer has every right to hurt his business.
 
Minusorange said:
Mr Rossman sums up the blackout quite well, it does more damage to the users if they tell Reddit they're ****** off with them but they'll be back in 2/3 days as opposed to just doing a blackout indefinitely
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Most of the larger Reddit pages have realised this and gone blackout indefinitely which is good.
 
mrk said:
It's only awful if all you are browsing on it are awful subs. So that says more about you than anything else!
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I don't really use Reddit as I find it looks and operates like a site from the 80's, it's nothing to do with my content. To me it's kinda clunky and confusing. The content I get is generally very good and useful.
mrk said:
The vast majority of my subbed subs are about animals being funny, baby elephant gifs, cockatiels, dogs with jobs, cats being derp, humans being bros, animals being bros, animals being jerks (lol) and generally all manner of interesting and cool things.
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You see, that sounds terrible to me and would be a reason NOT to use it if they were popping up in my feed... :cry:
 
How many people use third party apps to access Reddit, and how many of those would not bother using Reddit at all without 3rd party apps?

With 450,000,000 million users it could probably do with a good cull anyway. In the US they always think more is better but that isn't necessarily the case.
 
englishpremier said:
How many people use third party apps to access Reddit, and how many of those would not bother using Reddit at all without 3rd party apps?

With 450,000,000 million users it could probably do with a good cull anyway. In the US they always think more is better but that isn't necessarily the case.
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Yea, they've got around 450m users, and Apollo had just over 1m, so it's a fraction of a percent. Of that fraction of a percent, most will go silently over to the native app anyway. These protests will do nothing to change the situation.

The native app is OK for just normal browsing. It's just that apps like Apollo were so much sleeker, nicer to use, faster etc.
 
I wonder if reddit are using misdirection by talking about charging for API access, rather than shutting it down, it's more likely they want to keep all the data for themselves.

Pricing others out of the market makes sense if reddit want the cost of their data to skyrocket. Big AI will likely pay whatever it costs to train new AI models. A possible example is $44B looks like a bargain for Twitter's data. :D
 
Kainz said:
Reddit is brilliant. Folks are missing so much as there’s subreddits for instance catering for everything you’re interested in, ie tv shows you watch etc.

It is where I spend a good amount of time, and dare I say it I have learnt a ton from people on it.
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This is the thing, the smaller (and some not so small) subs are superb.
 
Kainz said:
Reddit is brilliant. Folks are missing so much as there’s subreddits for instance catering for everything you’re interested in, ie tv shows you watch etc.

It is where I spend a good amount of time, and dare I say it I have learnt a ton from people on it.
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One of the biggest concerns I have seen is that mods for subreddits need to use 3rd party apps to really mod effectively, as Reddit itself is pretty barebones in that respect.

Thus the changes to the API impact their ability to mod, which in turn will impact normal users.
 
I've been a daily user of Apollo for years, will be incredibly sad to see it go.

Last time I used the official app every time I scrolled past a post that had been guilded some god awful animation took over the screen making it impossible to read anything.

It was the worst ******* thing I'd ever seen a social media site push to production, made the entire browsing experience dreadful.

Whoever signed off on that should have been fired.
 
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