Apollo dev: "I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership... cares about developers anymore."

Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse::Apollo dev: “I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership… cares about developers anymore.”

I used to be a mix user of the chans and reddit, now it’s Lemmy and the chans…

RedReader gets a barely-glance in a single sentence. A single dev (and with users providing PRs) has one of the best, and most unknown, apps for over a decade now. Really? QuantumBadger also put up quite a fight in favor of other developers, was openly critical about the changes and the handling of the situation, and was smart enough to record calls to prove that what reddit was saying was 180 from what they were doing. And all this could be gleaned from 15 minutes on their subreddit. Cmon, if you’re going to do ‘investigative journalism’, investigate each equally, fucks sake.

RedReader gets a barely-glance in a single sentence. A single dev (and with users providing PRs) has one of the best, and most unknown, apps for over a decade now.

RedReader is definitely a gem. Incredible app that still works despite the Reddit appocalypse.

The real TL;DR

Most third party apps are pay, somewhere around 1 to 3 bucks per month.

A couple are still in free because they’re negotiations with Reddit

At least one is free because it’s delivering the web version of the site with minor changes.

At least one of the apps that was paid before is now slightly more profitable as the playing field is leveled.

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Literally the only thing I still “use” Reddit for is [insert niche issue here]

Google: Reddit [what the fuck is happening??]

Usually get a decent starting line.

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I’ve given up and started asking Bing’s “chat” direct questions. It sorts through the bullshit search results and explains the answer to me in direct words.

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I use Lemmy Sync

I only browse Reddit at work with uBlock, but will never contribute again

I never used the official Reddit app in my 11 years on there. Only used the Reddit is Fun app paid version. I left to come here and although I do miss it, F SPEZ!

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I searched a question the other day and reddit popped up with a niche subreddit with the same question I had. I tried to go to it but I was unable to view it without logging in.

If it was an NSFW question or sub, just change your phone browser to desktop and you can bypass the login. At least that’s how it used to be

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It was a brewing subreddit.

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