harry_h0udini911Redditors - A new reddit client has arrived!
That's cool and everything, but if it's scraping the site they'll block that shit straight away, they've already said as much and scraper blocking is relatively easy to do these days.
Good luck though.
Madbrad200github.com/kaangiray26/geddit-app
appears to be an RSS feed reader built for Reddit, rather than just scraping the site. This’ll likely last quite a long time, I don’t see Reddit killing their rss functionality anytime soon.
Interesting, what does Reddit even use an RSS feed for?
MuddybulldogRSS users tend to be valuable customers as once they’ve subscribed they rarely leave. Users tend to use aggregators that provide high density feeds covering large amounts of content. Once they’ve subscribed you, as a content producer, will likely remain in their field of view for years to come. Even if they only end up interacting with your content a couple times a month it contributes to your monthly user stats and keeps driving those ad revenues with near zero retention costs.
Cool, thanks for explaining.
I doubt they'd be bothered too much by impacting the first part though, they've shown to be entirely willing to lose userbase in order to force their app, so retention probably doesn't interest them there if people start using the RSS feed as a 3rd party app.
I think the crux of it would come more down to whether or not they want to deal with the potential SEO hit that could come from getting rid of it.
Should be interesting to watch how they handle it, at any rate.
On a personal note, I'm pretty much done with Reddit after how they've acted recently, but watching them running around in the road, trying to play with the busses is genuinely fascinating.