Redditors - A new reddit client has arrived!
Redditors - A new reddit client has arrived!
Geddit is an open-source, Reddit client for Android without using their API. Many devs are working smart to bring us the content without API. Nitter is back, now Geddit.🍻
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That's cool and everything, but if it's scraping the site they'll block that shit straight away, they've already said as much and scraper blocking is relatively easy to do these days.
Good luck though.
https://github.com/kaangiray26/geddit-app
appears to be an RSS feed reader built for Reddit, rather than just scraping the site. This'll likely last quite a long time, I don't see Reddit killing their rss functionality anytime soon.
Interesting, what does Reddit even use an RSS feed for? I'm trying to figure out why they'd even have that still going today and coming up empty.
RSS users tend to be valuable customers as once they’ve subscribed they rarely leave. Users tend to use aggregators that provide high density feeds covering large amounts of content. Once they’ve subscribed you, as a content producer, will likely remain in their field of view for years to come. Even if they only end up interacting with your content a couple times a month it contributes to your monthly user stats and keeps driving those ad revenues with near zero retention costs.
It’s also a very efficient way for making your content visible to search engines and crawlers. If you have an RSS feed it’s pretty much guaranteed that Google, Bing, et. al. are consuming it which can lead to more rapid inclusion of new content in search results.
Cool, thanks for explaining.
I doubt they'd be bothered too much by impacting the first part though, they've shown to be entirely willing to lose userbase in order to force their app, so retention probably doesn't interest them there if people start using the RSS feed as a 3rd party app.
I think the crux of it would come more down to whether or not they want to deal with the potential SEO hit that could come from getting rid of it.
Should be interesting to watch how they handle it, at any rate.
On a personal note, I'm pretty much done with Reddit after how they've acted recently, but watching them running around in the road, trying to play with the busses is genuinely fascinating.
i experimented the last 1-2 weeks with a similiar concept and coded my own client for reddit.. and can say.. yes..reddit extremly hard limits you. they even banned my ip when i open reddit in a browser on the same device. similiar app named "Stealth" gets your ip banned by making requests in a second..its just not a good way to bypass reddits thirdparty api shit.