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That is until they pull a Twitter and kill those clients.

• tokenizerrr 11y ago
  They claim they are committed to supporting that free API[1]. And if they kill it, it would also kill all those reddit bots. There would be a massive outrage since many large subreddits rely on them for advanced automated moderation. There's AutoMod which they've integrated, but it's often not enough. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4dqxgt/reddit_mobile_apps/d1th4uf https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4dqxgt/reddi...
  • kuschku 11y ago
    Or they could just limit it to 10 IPs per API key. Kills all 3rd party clients, but leaves bots.
    • tokenizerrr 11y ago
      If anyone can sign up for a bot API key, then anyone can sign up for a 3rd party client API key. It'd add a step or two, but still. Anyway, you don't need an API key at all currently. And they said they intend to support the current API.
      • kuschku 11y ago
        That’s what they said about Twitter, too. And suddenly Falcon Pro was limited to 100'000 users.
• tunap 11y ago
  Query. Is the borking of RSS feeds last couple months related? It was done so poorly(still borked despite assurances contrary)? Would be quite a convenient way to herd a bunch of RSS users to sign up PDQ to keep their TIL & ELI5 fetishes uninterupted. I'm afraid I did the opposite, however. I don't need a new app, and again contrarily, I don't need a new feed reader. My worthless trivia supeepowers are indeed in decline. Meh.