reddit is down
reddit is down
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....
I've reached a point where it feels like talking about an old ex.
"Hey, did you hear? Judy had a kid."
"Good for her."
Overall, it doesn't matter either way because I don't interact with them anymore. I don't have malice (that only does you harm), just some good and bad memories from once upon a time.
Feels more like hearing about someone you hate getting sick and thinking "Good. I hope they fucking die."
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Might want to delete her from Facebook, then.
I.E. unsub from the Reddit community.
I haven't logged in there since July 1st after being there for 14 years. I don't need to delete/unsubscribe because that would be interaction. It's dead to me...a piece of the past.
Great point. I find it hilarious that every post in this comm that makes it to the front page has people complaining about the presence of the update, and it’s often the most upvoted comment. Your fb analogy is perfect.
Same, "Oh... Okay, that stinks for their users". Gotta just let stuff go, life is short.
Most reported problems: app (72%) ....well if that ain't a clear statement.
the majority of reddit traffic came from mobile phones for the past 5 years or so, and the vast majority of mobile users use the app, so it doesn't surprise me that that's where most reports come from.
Remember the days when Reddit would go down at least every month or so?
And that was the reason to start selling awards and beginning of the Enshittification of reddit.
Only back then it was presented as, ‘hey people of reddit, we have a problem, can you help us out?’ Instead of, ‘Fuck You! Pay Me!’ like the API bullshit.
I remember there was a TIL that was about how Reddit didn't make enough money to pay for its servers so people started encouraging others to buy gold and to gild comments.
Then someone said it would be great to see a progress meter that shows whether we paid enough to pay for reddit for the day.
It was the golden age of reddit, if you'll pardon the pun. Unidan was still around. Celebrities were engaging with the community. It was wild. Users wanted to see Reddit succeed and reddit proper wanted to help its users.
It's sad to see what Reddit has become.
Thoughts and prayers.
Glad I've got Lemmy!
That app is atrocious
old.reddit.com is still working, if anyone curious.
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.