> While third party app users don't directly contribute to revenue, Reddit is highly reliant on its community to produce and moderate content for free. This is

> While third party app users don't directly contribute to revenue, Reddit is highly reliant on its community to produce and moderate content for free. This is an important point. Reddit gets its content and moderation for free by their users (who often steals that content from elsewhere...), yet they consider them to cost them money? There's another thing I haven't seen many people bring up. Like a lot of Reddit users with an older account, I use old.reddit.com together with RES. RES uses the .json endpoints for a lot of functionality, and those are considered part of Reddit's API according to them. So this is not just about third party mobile apps, the desktop experience might get seriously degraded as well. I hope it does, because the worse it gets the easier it is to quit.