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You find healthier ways to use your time, a developer loses his livelihood. The outrage is at the latter, not about how you use Reddit.
by basisword 3y ago
You find healthier ways to use your time, a developer loses his livelihood. The outrage is at the latter, not about how you use Reddit.
- ezekg 3y agoThis is just business. He'll figure it out. He's a businessman, after all.
- canes123456 3y agoPart of the reason big companies aren't going out of their way to screw over small companies is the terrible PR they get. Excusing it as just business negates this effect.
- veave 3y agoThat's what happens when you build your business on another business. He knew that reddit could close their API access at any time.
- andrewstuart2 3y agoI do get that, and having to change up the focus of your career sucks, 100%. I don't want to diminish the pain and frustration there. But empathy doesn't need to include outrage. I'd point out that any of third-party reddit app devs have one of the best resumes for whatever's next. They should have their choice of paths, whether that be adapting their codebase to $NEXT_PLATFORM, doing some high profile consulting, going back to a day job, etc. It'd be better if they didn't have to, for sure, but it also isn't career-ending.