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Wasn’t one of the excuses they used for removing 3rd party API usage was the clients were inefficient and resource intensive?

Well, now it’s just their own official client, and yet the server is still down, so…

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    1355·
    7 months ago

    I’ve reached a point where it feels like talking about an old ex.

    “Hey, did you hear? Judy had a kid.”

    “Good for her.”

    Overall, it doesn’t matter either way because I don’t interact with them anymore. I don’t have malice (that only does you harm), just some good and bad memories from once upon a time.

    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
      181·
      7 months ago

      the majority of reddit traffic came from mobile phones for the past 5 years or so, and the vast majority of mobile users use the app, so it doesn’t surprise me that that’s where most reports come from.

  • Uglyhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    7 months ago

    Remember the days when Reddit would go down at least every month or so?

    And that was the reason to start selling awards and beginning of the Enshittification of reddit.

    Only back then it was presented as, ‘hey people of reddit, we have a problem, can you help us out?’ Instead of, ‘Fuck You! Pay Me!’ like the API bullshit.

    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      7 months ago

      I remember there was a TIL that was about how Reddit didn’t make enough money to pay for its servers so people started encouraging others to buy gold and to gild comments.

      Then someone said it would be great to see a progress meter that shows whether we paid enough to pay for reddit for the day.

      It was the golden age of reddit, if you’ll pardon the pun. Unidan was still around. Celebrities were engaging with the community. It was wild. Users wanted to see Reddit succeed and reddit proper wanted to help its users.

      It’s sad to see what Reddit has become.

      • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        7 months ago

        I’m still justice for Victoria and what they did to the AMA sub. That damn near killed all the cool engagement the site had. After that it just became endless shitposts with no real quality. It’s sort of the same on Lemmy, but with no corporate overlords. So I have that at least.

        • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          7 months ago

          Victoria was GOAT. She made sure that AMAs went smoothly and that celebrities knew what they were getting into.

          But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s talk about Rampart, this new movie starring Woody Harrelson.

  • schmidtster@lemmy.world
    61·
    7 months ago

    I thought 3rd party apps were still allowed, the just pay for usage and there was ways to spoof the api as well?

    When did that change?

    • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social
      17·
      7 months ago

      The announced pricing is prohibitively expensive for apps that were previously free (and changes were basically immediate instead of giving apps a year to make changes).

      And Reddit announced that NSFW results would not be returned by the API (which basically renders apps useless for many users)

      • Die4Ever@programming.dev
        91·
        7 months ago

        And Reddit announced that NSFW results would not be returned by the API (which basically renders apps useless for many users)

        And of course many subs use the NSFW flag for spoilers too, so you could really be missing out on a lot. On r/StarCraft they use the NSFW tag for recent tournament results, which is like the main thing I would want to discuss on there lol

    • shininghero@kbin.social
      15·
      7 months ago

      They didn’t stop allowing 3rd party app usage per se, they just priced it so absurdly high that they all had to stop operating or get multimillion dollar invoices.
      …Which is technically just killing 3rd party apps, thinly disguised under a layer of potential profit. Pretty standard soulless corporate practice.