Companies often advertise open API access to increase usage and growth, and then cut it off once the growth from those open API access is less than the potentia

Companies often advertise open API access to increase usage and growth, and then cut it off once the growth from those open API access is less than the potential monetary gain from closing the ecosystem down (ads from their mobile clients, charging 3rd party clients for API access, etc). It's suck, but I'm actually surprised it took this long for Reddit to finally do it.