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What is/was stopping Reddit from doing this: - Decide that you don't want third-party apps. - Buy out all the big players (Apollo, etc.) and integrate some of
by skilled 3y ago
What is/was stopping Reddit from doing this:
- Decide that you don't want third-party apps.
- Buy out all the big players (Apollo, etc.) and integrate some of their tooling into your own app/core.
I understand it would have cost a lot of money, but they could have found a middle-ground where everyone is happy. Instead, they're throwing a stupid tantrum that could end up costing them a lot more than it would have cost them to solve it the more traditional way.
Stinks like incompetence and lack of awareness to me.
- _zzaw 3y agoReddit buying third-party apps to adopt a few token niceties and then kill them wouldn't be a middle ground. Anybody who uses those apps would see exactly what the game was and be just as outraged. It would still be a tantrum, figuratively speaking, just a more expensive and passive-aggressive one. "Incompetence and lack of awareness" is what you get when management starts taking their community for granted.
- seydor 3y agoMuch easier to say "subreddits can no longer be private"
- skilled 3y ago"After a long and hard discussion together with the Snoos, we have decided to shut Reddit down. It wasn't us, it was you."
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- sleepybrett 3y agoMy question is why can't reddit provide multiple tiers of api access for different audiences. * Want to scrape all of reddit for your fucking ML nightmare, that will be 1 billion dollars. * Want to write a reddit 3rd party app without serving reddit's ads? Thats some price point. * Want to write a reddit 3rd party app and display within some parameters the ads they place into the api feed? Thats cheaper than no ad serving. * Just a personal api project maybe to help admin your sub or help you in some other way. Free under some kind of reasonable rate limit.