mintiefresh to Reddit@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoReddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’ - The Vergewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@beehaw.orgRedditMigration@kbin.social
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minus-square@KillaBeez@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoBullshit. I’ve been using third party apps before the official one ever existed
minus-square@axtualdave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThe official app was a third party app until Reddit bought it.
minus-squareEric_Pollocklinkfedilink1•1 year agoBefore I switched over here and this situation started getting big, I saw a post over on Reddit that explained how the “official” Reddit app was actually a third party app that they bought out…
minus-squareRandomStickmanlinkfedilink3•1 year agoYup. They bought Alien Blue, swapped the logo colour to orange, made it the official logo and called it a day.
minus-squaredie444dielinkfedilink1•1 year agoThis is not true. They also stripped out a shit ton of functionality.
minus-squareEric_Pollocklinkfedilink1•1 year agoI was using Boost for Reddit, and I was always overwhelmed by the customization options. Absolutely loved it though.
Bullshit. I’ve been using third party apps before the official one ever existed
The official app was a third party app until Reddit bought it.
Before I switched over here and this situation started getting big, I saw a post over on Reddit that explained how the “official” Reddit app was actually a third party app that they bought out…
Yup. They bought Alien Blue, swapped the logo colour to orange, made it the official logo and called it a day.
This is not true. They also stripped out a shit ton of functionality.
I was using Boost for Reddit, and I was always overwhelmed by the customization options. Absolutely loved it though.