I wrote about how Reddit’s years of making users responsible for content creation, moderation, and product development came back to haunt it today. https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-goes-dark
Reddit goes dark
As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
@caseynewton Based on how Reddit handled the situation (unreasonable timeframe, unreasonable price tag, their reaction to criticism), it looks like the decision was made to cut off 3rd party API access entirely and they tried to shift blame to the app developers when the plug was eventually pulled.