@sapphrodite@dataterm.digital to Technology@beehaw.org • 1 year agoReddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit "was never designed to support third-party apps"www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgRedditMigration@kbin.social
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minus-square@mimlink69•1 year agoDidn’t the 3rd party apps predate the official one by several years?
minus-square@buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilink14•1 year agoNot only that, their official app was a third party app that they bought and rebranded.
minus-squareLockelylinkfedilink7•1 year agoYes. Many of them. I use Baconreader which predates the official Reddit App by like four years.
minus-squareScrubbleslinkfedilink1•1 year agopower hungry people love to rewrite history to suit themselves
minus-squarePlainsKeeper316linkfedilink1•1 year agoYep, they relied on these apps to help grow Reddit and now they’re pulling the rug out from under them.
minus-squareoverfl0wlinkfedilink1•1 year agoWorse. At least on iOS, the official app was purchased as a 3rd-party app. It used to be AlienBlue.
minus-squarewjriilinkfedilink1•1 year agoAnd I bet its API calls still look a whole hell of a lot like Apollo’s or RiF’s.
minus-squareh0usewaifulinkfedilink1•1 year agoOut 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!