@caseynewton Tons of popular 3rd party apps (Reddit is Fun, Baconreader, etc) as well as basically all major bot integrations, and ingestion systems like NetNewsWire
A big part as well is moderation tooling. The (volunteer) moderation teams rely on a lot of 3rd party systems to do their work, which Reddit is just casting aside while still expecting them to maintain those communities
@dbreunig a lot of it has to do with the available tooling on mobile apps for moderators not being good in the main app.
(I'm mid boss fight at the moment, but I saw earlier the toolbox dev say that the reddit changes and whatnot has them concerned about what the future looks like, but also have seen them say its not immediately impacted. apologies for the brevity. Boss fight.)
@endeavorance Yes, that is what I linked to. They are not impacted and impacting them would be very hard, because they are a browser plugin just manipulating HTML/CSS/JS. It's not an API.
Do you know of some features of 3rd party apps that mods consider essential? (And I'll wait for the conclusion of boss fight.)
@dbreunig late reply. Banging my head against high difficulty content when tired is a bad idea.
ANYWAY, yeah the dev of that plugin has commented a few different sentiments in a handful of threads. I saw a different one to the one you linked but I think we're on the same page.
A cursory scan of more replies to the top of the post thread shows a good few references and resources, I'd point to there for helpful info as there's infographics by people much more deep into it than I am.
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Drew Breunig