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The only way I can stomach using Reddit is via Reddit Sync. I firmly believe that soon Reddit will prevent third party clients from using their API. Perhaps th

The only way I can stomach using Reddit is via Reddit Sync. I firmly believe that soon Reddit will prevent third party clients from using their API. Perhaps there'll be a subscription service where paid accounts can still use it with their client of choice, or maybe they'll just kill the ecosystem in an attempt to get people on the official app. Either way, that's me done with it. The hostility makes it somewhere I'm just unenthusiastic about visiting. It's a Facebook-style manouvre.

rognjen 5y ago
Honestly, paying for API might be a better monetization strategy then just actively shitting on their users.
- dageshi 5y ago
  The percentage of people who would pay for it, probably wouldn't make up for the dev time to implement it. Once upon a time the HN userbase and the reddit user base weren't a million miles apart, those days are long gone, reddit is mainstream and mainstream consumers don't care that much about ads, the new UI or everything else this thread is up in arms about, it's still the defacto internet forum and nothing I've seen looks likely to replace it.
  - rognjen 5y ago
    App developers would pay for API not users.
542458 5y ago
Edit: apparently I’m misreading the traffic page and third party apps are not included. So disregard this paragraph. I really doubt they’ll kill API access. From the stats on my (medium sized) sub a full third of uniques (desktop and mobile combined) are from unofficial clients. And that’s not to mention the number of near-essential bots used by many subs for community management. Now, what they are doing is not putting new non-core features into the API, like chat and RPAN. But while that’s still irritating, it is a bit different than killing API access.
- rognjen 5y ago
  > full third of uniques That tells you what their own experience is like. Thanks for sharing that.
- Macha 5y ago
  At one point, Tweets showed which client you used and most came from third party clients.
- syntheticnature 5y ago
  My understanding is that third-party apps aren't shown at all, per https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6pxyvy/traffic_page_update_now_includes_data_from_all/ https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6pxyvy/traffic_pag... ; "Reddit apps" only lists the official ones in subreddit stats.
Tijdreiziger 5y ago
The fact that their new features (RPAN and chat) aren't available via the API is telling enough in my eyes.

rognjen 5y ago

Honestly, paying for API might be a better monetization strategy then just actively shitting on their users.

dageshi 5y ago
The percentage of people who would pay for it, probably wouldn't make up for the dev time to implement it. Once upon a time the HN userbase and the reddit user base weren't a million miles apart, those days are long gone, reddit is mainstream and mainstream consumers don't care that much about ads, the new UI or everything else this thread is up in arms about, it's still the defacto internet forum and nothing I've seen looks likely to replace it.
- rognjen 5y ago
  App developers would pay for API not users.

542458 5y ago

Edit: apparently I’m misreading the traffic page and third party apps are not included. So disregard this paragraph. I really doubt they’ll kill API access. From the stats on my (medium sized) sub a full third of uniques (desktop and mobile combined) are from unofficial clients. And that’s not to mention the number of near-essential bots used by many subs for community management. Now, what they are doing is not putting new non-core features into the API, like chat and RPAN. But while that’s still irritating, it is a bit different than killing API access.

rognjen 5y ago
> full third of uniques That tells you what their own experience is like. Thanks for sharing that.
Macha 5y ago
At one point, Tweets showed which client you used and most came from third party clients.
syntheticnature 5y ago
My understanding is that third-party apps aren't shown at all, per https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6pxyvy/traffic_page_update_now_includes_data_from_all/ https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6pxyvy/traffic_pag... ; "Reddit apps" only lists the official ones in subreddit stats.

Tijdreiziger 5y ago

The fact that their new features (RPAN and chat) aren't available via the API is telling enough in my eyes.