Why are 3rd party apps still working?
Why are 3rd party apps still working?
Joey for Reddit was my reddit client of choice for several years now. There never was any announcement from the dev regarding the future of Joey.
So there were speculations if he made a deal with reddit and would continue with a subscription tier.
Boost however officially announced they would shut down with the API changes coming.
I just checked and both apps are still going strong.
Shouldn't they have stopped working on June 30th?
Amy idea what's going on?
I can't say about all of them, but the RiF developer clarified it for the verge, taken from this link :
If RIF is still working for you when you’re logged out, here’s why.
“When users are logged out, the app is still working because it does not use the OAuth client credentials while logged out,” developer Andrew Shu tells The Verge in an email. However, he expects that the app will stop working in this way soon.
Sync is no longer working at all, only error messages, maybe they didn't revoke their keys, that might be a nasty surprise for those devs when they get the bill.
AlienBlue still works 😂 You can download it from your purchase history in the App store, you just can't log in.
You can download its shambling corpse too. Just search for ‘Reddit’ on the App Store.
I don't think there's a lot of competence at Reddit headquarters right now...
I’m guessing some app developers didn’t delete their API key like Apollo did but I could be wrong. Not sure why Reddit hasn’t pushed the 429 error out to all apps, only some, though.
I was getting the 429 error on RIF until I logged out. It works fine besides that. Even posts marked as NSFW are viewable still.
Reddit fumbing their own policies and implementations? Never happened before.
Narwhal for iOS is working as well as ever. However, the developer is apparently eating whatever the API cost is right now (if there even is any) and will push an app update soon that will require monthly payments to keep the app working.
The developer is not eating the cost, Reddit gave them and a few other apps an extension. And also refused an extension for some apps.
Apparently a 30 day warning wasn't enough time for them to implement the changes they expected app developers to adjust too, I for one am shocked!
The Relay dev thinks they can make a subscription model work. Last I checked they still hadn't determined pricing, but they were hopeful that it would be about a 60/40 split for them/the API. I'm skeptical it will work out that way, I have a feeling most of it will just go to reddit.
But the app will continue to work for the next few weeks before the subscription kicks in while the dev works out the details.
I fuckin LOVE Joey. I went apple with my most recent phone and switched to Apollo (so, so good as well), but I still missed Joey. Joey rules
I very rarely see Joey mentioned. But it is by far my favorite reddit client.
Infinity on Android still works for me, though I don't know for how long as I got a message about a week ago when opening the app saying it would switch to a paid subscription July 1st so I have no idea what is going on there.
I think Infinity secured some kind of exception to keep it running until the new subscription version is ready (likely because the app has always been free and not subscription-based). There was some discussion on the Reddit Infinity community but I haven't been on there in a while.
There is some suspicion that other apps like Narwhal are paying out of pocket to keep things going at the moment...
RIF was working on my android after July 1.
I was logged out and got curious and tried to log in. 😢
It working for me now as long as you don't login, if you do it shows Reddit in the inapp browser.
Same for Boost. Hopefully it's going to be a uturn on the api thing and they're cooking up a positive way to spin it.
I was curious about this too. I have reddit is fun for iOS and it is still chugging along NSFW content and all.
NSFW stuff is supposed to get cut from the API starting July 5th I believe.
