This makes the idea that sites like Reddit only live and thrive because of user generated content and they're nothing without it, reverberate all across the roo

This makes the idea that sites like Reddit only live and thrive because of user generated content and they're nothing without it, reverberate all across the room. Looking at what Reddit has done, it makes things obvious to me that the APIs that are free to use are only a gimmick and companies can pull the plug on you as a consumer at any moment. I mean, I can easily imagine that Reddit originally published its API to look "cool" but look at what money has done today. Why could you not make an offer to buy out Apollo or other 3rd party clients before you closed out your API Reddit? Fuck your leadership and the so called idiots on your management team that pulled ideas straight from a dumpyard.