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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”
(www.theverge.com)
Then what does it have a publicly accessible API for?
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Doesn’t he realise the reddit app was a 3rd party app originally that they have made into a shit show?
This is too much to believe. IMO spez is just the fall guy.This wholole shitshow leads to spez taking the blame for killing reddit, leaving, and then reddit monetizing the api at more reasonable rates than those already announced, while dying a slow death
"While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open, according to a fact sheet shared by the company on Thursday. In the fact sheet, Reddit writes that there are more than 100,000 “active communities,” that the company sees 57 million “daily active uniques,” and that there are more than 50,000 daily active moderators. "
This is why we need it to be indefinite.
3rd party apps came before the official app - in fact didn't the official app start out as a 3rd-party app before it was acquired by Reddit?
Yup, Alien Blue was acquired by the Snoo Platform, Inc. and swiftly killed.
But, hey they shifted the hue of the AB logo from blue to orange and yet the official app is a dogshit compared to the AB.
Style and substance only, not proper function.
Yup, they bought it just to scrap it and write whatever the hell the current app is.
You think he posted this in r/AITA? Cause yeah you are.
If Reddit can handle being data mined by OpenAI, I'm sure it can handle a few dozen apps.
The more I read from him, the firmer one thought is planted in my brain….
Fuck spez.
Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
So he'll be a leader, not a slave and as a leader, not a slave, will probably have slaves....
Spez is a one-trick-pony. He can only power through protests by ignoring them and brushing them off. Until now it kinda worked, until it doesn't.
The official API access rules, still online, use an android reddit app as an example for how to select a user agent: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API#rules
It's hard to argue this wasn't an intended use-case...
It's all about the money, baby.