Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jun 12, 2023

#Reddit kills third-party apps by hiking API fees to girnomous levels.

*Me not realising that there were even third-party apps*

So I'm not sure that the narrative that Reddit will destroy its business by doing this is true, cos it doesn't affect users like me, which I suspect, is a majority of its users.

However, as a developer, I will think twice about developing anything for a for-profit platform, seeing what happened with #Twitter etc. It is ... not great that platforms are ..1/2

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@liztai
Worth noting, perhaps, that Reddit didn’t just cripple 3rd-party apps but shut off some functionality in Reddit itself.

You used to be able to access a nice mobile-friendly version of Reddit by tweaking the URL.

I only started using an app when they killed that functionality. Joke’s on me because I paid for the app and now they’re killing the app too.

Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jun 12, 2023
@negative12dollarbill I've always accessed reddit via the browser and nothing else, so I guess I don't feel the effects much. Didn't know about the functionality bit to be honest.
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@liztai
You never accessed it via browser on your phone? That's what I meant particularly. Anyway, I guess I'm saying we should have suspected something was up when they started breaking their own product, even before they started breaking other people's products.
Jun 12, 2023 at 4:56amWeb