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> A request for third-party app developers > Before shutting down your apps, please consider pushing a simple app update to enable specifying a custom client I
by Semaphor 3y ago
> A request for third-party app developers
> Before shutting down your apps, please consider pushing a simple app update to enable specifying a custom client ID and Reddit API domain, as this would greatly simplify setup for allowing users to connect to real Reddit with a custom client ID or to connect to a custom Reddit server.
I wonder why I haven’t seen mention of this anywhere. It’s not clear how open reddit will be with distributing keys, but can’t hurt to try.
- busymom0 3y agoThat’s sort of skirting around the rules and I won’t be surprised if Reddit simply starts requiring manual approval for API usage which will kill this workaround.
- tylermenezes 3y agoThey already do require manual approval. You have to submit a support ticket before generated tokens will work.
- busymom0 3y agoThat’s only for “production” apps. You can do the development and testing without approval and based on my past experience, for a single user, that’s sufficient as I don’t remember being throttled during my testing. For individual user, I think the limit is fairly high before which they throttle.
- hedora 3y agoShutting it down from Reddit’s end won’t work here. Reddit open sourced their server code a while back, and this would allow people to point now-banned reddit clients at third party servers running an open source reddit fork from 2017. The main change from then, according to TFA, is the new UI, but you still get the equivalent of old.reddit.com if you move your subreddit to this (and your members would then be able to use third party clients, assuming this proposal succeeds).
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