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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But... 3rd-party apps are literally a free advertisement to the service which the app connects to?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

These apps helped build early reddit and now reddit is pulling the ladder up after reaching the top.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit also launched their own phone app YEARS after third party apps became popular. Like 5-6 years later. Presumably because they felt those apps were a good thing -- or at the very least not a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I understand it, reddit's official app was actually a 3rd party app that they bought out, so that just adds to the disingenuousness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, they bought out Alien Blue, basically Apollo's predecessor as the best iOS client.

And then they ruined it such that nobody could ever tell it was once a great client.