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Funny how many comments on that post say 3rd party apps are better than the official one. Reddit shuts down their API in 3, 2, 1...

napolux 6y ago
Apollo on iOS is a wonderful app, plus, it has no ads while the official one is full of banners if you're not a premium user.
- chrysoprace 6y ago
  As much as people sing praises of Apollo, it's very unhelpful that it's an iOS-only app. I don't understand why platform-exclusive apps are a thing in this day and age.
raverbashing 6y ago
Yeah let them try it The new desktop interface is unusable. Really. It might work for 9gag kind of shallow content but not for a "frontpage" thing.
- alangibson 6y ago
  I just opened reddit.com for the first time in I don't know how long. Amazing. The actual content starts 2/3rds of the way down the screen. All the media is unfurled so I can see all of one headline on the home page.
  - ffpip 6y ago
    Frames with frames within frames. Try opening a video and see your computer heat up.
    - Hammershaft 6y ago
      I have seen my enthusiast desktop rig rev up and slow to a crawl just by scrolling down reddit. I have seen a collection of ~10 reddit tabs work on 6 (!!!) gigs of ram. Reddit has become a condensed form of all that is so awful about modern web design. I used to love using reddit to find interesting niche communities, it was my primary way of engaging with the internet. These days I just hope it dies faster so that those communities can migrate to a better platform.
ffpip 6y ago
It'll be a shitshow if that happens. r/Android and r/iphone will lock the sub in protest
- alangibson 6y ago
  It sucks to say, but they'll get mad then they'll get over it. It worked for Twitter, and it'll work for Reddit too. > July 25, 2013 – at 12:00 PM EDT US, Twitter turned off API v1 which effectively shut down the Android, iOS, and AIR versions of TweetDeck.
  - mjhagen 6y ago
    It sorta worked for twitter, but not for me and others like me. I use Tweetbot on iOS and a heavily customized (adblock, custom css, "suggest_"-filters) version of the web site on Windows. If those were not options for me I'd exit the platform just like I did Facebook.
  - cecja 6y ago
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly... I would say their growth trajectory skewed down a little after closing the apis.
  - Macha 6y ago
    And now I don't use Twitter. I can't be the only one.
- SlackingOff123 6y ago
  And the reddit admins will just remove the sub-moderators and assign new ones.
polytely 6y ago
I think that would just stop my reddit usage all together, it's fun reading material but I don't feel that connected to reddit as a platform
- benhurmarcel 6y ago
  I'd stop using it on mobile. Which probably wouldn't be a bad thing actually.
numpad0 6y ago
Social networks monetize user anger, so no, they won’t care
tonny747 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they start having 1st party exclusive features instead of shutting down their existing API.
Yc4win 6y ago
It's just their official app is _so_ bad one is either required to use the web interface (which nags you to download their app) or download a 3rd party (cr)app just to read the damn thing.

napolux 6y ago

Apollo on iOS is a wonderful app, plus, it has no ads while the official one is full of banners if you're not a premium user.

chrysoprace 6y ago
As much as people sing praises of Apollo, it's very unhelpful that it's an iOS-only app. I don't understand why platform-exclusive apps are a thing in this day and age.

raverbashing 6y ago

Yeah let them try it The new desktop interface is unusable. Really. It might work for 9gag kind of shallow content but not for a "frontpage" thing.

alangibson 6y ago
I just opened reddit.com for the first time in I don't know how long. Amazing. The actual content starts 2/3rds of the way down the screen. All the media is unfurled so I can see all of one headline on the home page.
- ffpip 6y ago
  Frames with frames within frames. Try opening a video and see your computer heat up.
  - Hammershaft 6y ago
    I have seen my enthusiast desktop rig rev up and slow to a crawl just by scrolling down reddit. I have seen a collection of ~10 reddit tabs work on 6 (!!!) gigs of ram. Reddit has become a condensed form of all that is so awful about modern web design. I used to love using reddit to find interesting niche communities, it was my primary way of engaging with the internet. These days I just hope it dies faster so that those communities can migrate to a better platform.

ffpip 6y ago

It'll be a shitshow if that happens. r/Android and r/iphone will lock the sub in protest

alangibson 6y ago
It sucks to say, but they'll get mad then they'll get over it. It worked for Twitter, and it'll work for Reddit too. > July 25, 2013 – at 12:00 PM EDT US, Twitter turned off API v1 which effectively shut down the Android, iOS, and AIR versions of TweetDeck.
- mjhagen 6y ago
  It sorta worked for twitter, but not for me and others like me. I use Tweetbot on iOS and a heavily customized (adblock, custom css, "suggest_"-filters) version of the web site on Windows. If those were not options for me I'd exit the platform just like I did Facebook.
- cecja 6y ago
  https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly... I would say their growth trajectory skewed down a little after closing the apis.
- Macha 6y ago
  And now I don't use Twitter. I can't be the only one.
SlackingOff123 6y ago
And the reddit admins will just remove the sub-moderators and assign new ones.

polytely 6y ago

I think that would just stop my reddit usage all together, it's fun reading material but I don't feel that connected to reddit as a platform

benhurmarcel 6y ago
I'd stop using it on mobile. Which probably wouldn't be a bad thing actually.

numpad0 6y ago

Social networks monetize user anger, so no, they won’t care

tonny747 6y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they start having 1st party exclusive features instead of shutting down their existing API.

Yc4win 6y ago

It's just their official app is _so_ bad one is either required to use the web interface (which nags you to download their app) or download a 3rd party (cr)app just to read the damn thing.