Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse::Apollo dev: “I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership… cares about developers anymore.”
The issue was never to get access to Reddit without paying a monthly fee. It was about the experience as an user. However, what really made me drop Reddit was the way Reddit management acted in all of this. They showed no signs of being someone to trust.
So I don’t care if there are 3rd party Reddit apps since Reddit is irrelevant to me.
Reddit is an open sewer of emotive dribble and bot pasta. The IPO will be fun to watch.
I left and didn’t come back. Lemmy is scratching that itch just great.
RedReader gets a barely-glance in a single sentence. A single dev (and with users providing PRs) has one of the best, and most unknown, apps for over a decade now. Really? QuantumBadger also put up quite a fight in favor of other developers, was openly critical about the changes and the handling of the situation, and was smart enough to record calls to prove that what reddit was saying was 180 from what they were doing. And all this could be gleaned from 15 minutes on their subreddit. Cmon, if you’re going to do ‘investigative journalism’, investigate each equally, fucks sake.
I guess Ars writers can’t be too critical to Reddit. They’re owned by the same parent company (condé nast) afterall. The fact that they’re even allowed to cover this topic by their corporate overlord is already a miracle.
There was this piece on Youtube I watched a while back, where a news company was investigating itself (think it was cnbc or something). They reached out to themselves for a comment, got no response, and included that in the video 🙃
I hope that reporter is still employed there lol
I feel like ignoring myself sometimes too 🙃
S’all good, Capitalism subsumes criticism of itself and sells it back to us.
RedReader gets a barely-glance in a single sentence. A single dev (and with users providing PRs) has one of the best, and most unknown, apps for over a decade now.
RedReader is definitely a gem. Incredible app that still works despite the Reddit appocalypse.
The real TL;DR
Most third party apps are pay, somewhere around 1 to 3 bucks per month.
A couple are still in free because they’re negotiations with Reddit
At least one is free because it’s delivering the web version of the site with minor changes.
At least one of the apps that was paid before is now slightly more profitable as the playing field is leveled.
I use Lemmy Sync
I only browse Reddit at work with uBlock, but will never contribute again
I never used the official Reddit app in my 11 years on there. Only used the Reddit is Fun app paid version. I left to come here and although I do miss it, F SPEZ!
I searched a question the other day and reddit popped up with a niche subreddit with the same question I had. I tried to go to it but I was unable to view it without logging in.
If it was an NSFW question or sub, just change your phone browser to desktop and you can bypass the login. At least that’s how it used to be
