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Wasn't one of the excuses they used for removing 3rd party API usage was the clients were inefficient and resource intensive?
Well, now it's just their own official client, and yet the server is still down, so....
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I thought 3rd party apps were still allowed, the just pay for usage and there was ways to spoof the api as well?
When did that change?
The announced pricing is prohibitively expensive for apps that were previously free (and changes were basically immediate instead of giving apps a year to make changes).
And Reddit announced that NSFW results would not be returned by the API (which basically renders apps useless for many users)
And Reddit announced that NSFW results would not be returned by the API (which basically renders apps useless for many users)
And of course many subs use the NSFW flag for spoilers too, so you could really be missing out on a lot. On r/StarCraft they use the NSFW tag for recent tournament results, which is like the main thing I would want to discuss on there lol
They didn't stop allowing 3rd party app usage per se, they just priced it so absurdly high that they all had to stop operating or get multimillion dollar invoices.
...Which is technically just killing 3rd party apps, thinly disguised under a layer of potential profit. Pretty standard soulless corporate practice.That's exactly how they sabotaged cannabis in America back in the 1930s. You could technically still get it legally, you just needed a government issued tax stamp from your state, similar to a pack of cigarettess where the state stamp is visible on the bottom. The rub was that nobody was being allowed to purchase the stamps, and if you look at the cost today of stamps, it's prohibitively expensive. Like a decade ago I checked in Massachusetts and it was about $8 a gram to get individual tax stamps.
The fucking thing of it was that they couldn’t just develop a better app. Their multi-million dollar app team with access to the server source for crying out loud couldn’t compete with teams consisting of one guy in his garage. And that was while giving their app away while others were selling them for some serious cash.
That’s the part I found offensive.
Not the part where they bought Alien Blue and made their official app somehow worse?
I was an Alien Blue user since very close to its release, and I would never have become a Reddit user without it. If I’m remembering correctly (it’s been a while and I paid less attention to this kind of thing at the time), they had the exact same problem. Their in house app/website couldn’t compete with an app written by some guy. But AB was about it at the time. I don’t know about the absolute numbers on Android back then, but AB was far and away the most popular app on iOS. So when they bought it out, we all figured “Great! Now it’ll be even better with official support and all that funding.” We all know what happened there. They just killed it and went with internal projects.
Luckily I had also started messing around with one of those nifty little tablets Google made, so I had backup options. I didn’t find anything that equaled AB though. Then I discovered Apollo. I think I actually found it via the announcement on /r/apple, and I never looked back.
But, again, a guy in a garage. I’m guessing a lot of the popular android apps were similar. So now they’re just like “Fuck em.”
And, again, I haven’t looked back.