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Reddit is surprisingly still open w/ their API at this point. Some features have been purposefully left out of the APIs accessible to "old" reddit, but many wer
by yurishimo 4y ago
Reddit is surprisingly still open w/ their API at this point. Some features have been purposefully left out of the APIs accessible to "old" reddit, but many were not.
Apollo is a Reddit client for iOS and the major feature it doesn't have from the official client is "Chat". To be clear, you can still send/receive DMs, but the IM chat is not available. For time sensitive events (/r/place) I believe there was support in the official app, but that makes sense not to expose to 3rd parties.
Most other "features" can be recreated by the client independently as long as they have access to your posts/history.
All of that said, I would not hold my breath that this will still be true in 10 years. The only reason that the 3rd party clients are still supported is because Reddit is able to make enough revenue from those users to justify the expense. If/when that changes, so will API access. To their credit, it is possible to spend Reddit coins and give awards via the current API, but you need to use an official client to top up your account. This at least provides a path for 3rd party client users to generate revenue for Reddit directly.
- codq 4y agoApollo is so popular that API revocation would lead to a category 5 shitstorm among power users. I personally prefer Narwhal on iOS, but if I were forced to use native Reddit app—or really anything resembling ‘new’ Reddit—I’d immediately leave and never come back.
- yurishimo 4y agoYepp. Ive been an active Reddit user for around 12 years. I browsed on desktop for a few years and then switched to mobile and never looked back. The communities I engage with just don’t require a full keyboard/mouse setup for me to get value from them. If Apollo stops working, then I assume the other 3rd party apps would also be disabled so then I’m out. I’m a bit too young to have been active during RSS and and IRC days, but I’m exploring what a modern version of that experience looks like in case Reddit goes kaput.
- technion 4y agoI continue to completely disbelieve that Reddit is as popular as it is, whilst it is an apparently known fact it is completely unusable on mobile without a third party client.
- yurishimo 4y agoI think the users that find the reddit app "unusable" are generally tech-literate power users. Most normies I've met who use Reddit don't mind using the default app (until they are exposed to a 3rd party client anyway!)