sapphrodite@dataterm.digital to Technology@beehaw.org · 3 年前Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit "was never designed to support third-party apps"www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgRedditMigration@kbin.social
arrow-up147arrow-down1external-linkReddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit "was never designed to support third-party apps"www.theverge.comsapphrodite@dataterm.digital to Technology@beehaw.org · 3 年前message-square26linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgRedditMigration@kbin.social
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minus-squaremimlinkfedilinkarrow-up69·3 年前Didn’t the 3rd party apps predate the official one by several years?
minus-squarebuckykat@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14·3 年前Not only that, their official app was a third party app that they bought and rebranded.
minus-squareLockely@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 年前Yes. Many of them. I use Baconreader which predates the official Reddit App by like four years.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 年前power hungry people love to rewrite history to suit themselves
minus-squarePlainsKeeper316@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 年前Yep, they relied on these apps to help grow Reddit and now they’re pulling the rug out from under them.
minus-squareoverfl0w@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 年前Worse. At least on iOS, the official app was purchased as a 3rd-party app. It used to be AlienBlue.
minus-squarewjrii@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 年前And I bet its API calls still look a whole hell of a lot like Apollo’s or RiF’s.
minus-squareh0usewaifu@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 年前Out of curiosity, I went and looked it up. u/talklittle first posted about RIF in 2009. So yeah. Several!
Didn’t the 3rd party apps predate the official one by several years?
Not only that, their official app was a third party app that they bought and rebranded.
RIP Alien Blue.
Yes. Many of them. I use Baconreader which predates the official Reddit App by like four years.
power hungry people love to rewrite history to suit themselves
Yep, they relied on these apps to help grow Reddit and now they’re pulling the rug out from under them.
Worse. At least on iOS, the official app was purchased as a 3rd-party app. It used to be AlienBlue.
And I bet its API calls still look a whole hell of a lot like Apollo’s or RiF’s.
Out of curiosity, I went and looked it up. u/talklittle first posted about RIF in 2009. So yeah. Several!