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Funny how many comments on that post say 3rd party apps are better than the official one.

Reddit shuts down their API in 3, 2, 1...

Apollo on iOS is a wonderful app, plus, it has no ads while the official one is full of banners if you're not a premium user.

As much as people sing praises of Apollo, it's very unhelpful that it's an iOS-only app. I don't understand why platform-exclusive apps are a thing in this day and age.

I think that would just stop my reddit usage all together, it's fun reading material but I don't feel that connected to reddit as a platform

I'd stop using it on mobile. Which probably wouldn't be a bad thing actually.

It'll be a shitshow if that happens.

r/Android and r/iphone will lock the sub in protest

It sucks to say, but they'll get mad then they'll get over it. It worked for Twitter, and it'll work for Reddit too.

> July 25, 2013 – at 12:00 PM EDT US, Twitter turned off API v1 which effectively shut down the Android, iOS, and AIR versions of TweetDeck.

It sorta worked for twitter, but not for me and others like me. I use Tweetbot on iOS and a heavily customized (adblock, custom css, "suggest_"-filters) version of the web site on Windows. If those were not options for me I'd exit the platform just like I did Facebook.

And now I don't use Twitter. I can't be the only one.

And the reddit admins will just remove the sub-moderators and assign new ones.

Yeah let them try it

The new desktop interface is unusable. Really. It might work for 9gag kind of shallow content but not for a "frontpage" thing.

I just opened reddit.com for the first time in I don't know how long. Amazing. The actual content starts 2/3rds of the way down the screen. All the media is unfurled so I can see all of one headline on the home page.

Frames with frames within frames.

Try opening a video and see your computer heat up.

I have seen my enthusiast desktop rig rev up and slow to a crawl just by scrolling down reddit. I have seen a collection of ~10 reddit tabs work on 6 (!!!) gigs of ram. Reddit has become a condensed form of all that is so awful about modern web design.

I used to love using reddit to find interesting niche communities, it was my primary way of engaging with the internet. These days I just hope it dies faster so that those communities can migrate to a better platform.

I wouldn't be surprised if they start having 1st party exclusive features instead of shutting down their existing API.

It's just their official app is _so_ bad one is either required to use the web interface (which nags you to download their app) or download a 3rd party (cr)app just to read the damn thing.

Social networks monetize user anger, so no, they won’t care

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