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Comment by animesh | Hacker News Reader

They are on a path slowly killing third party reddit apps. Recent announcement on this. (An Update Regarding Reddit’s API https://redd.it/12qwagm)

Copied from a third party app (sync) dev's comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/12qwwjh/an_upda...

It looks like they'll be no more free access so every third party app will have to charge a subscription that goes to Reddit (monthly and with no costing provided yet)

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Clearly Reddit is going the way of many previous platforms. What will be the next platform I wonder?

I hope there is at least some centrality to the next "cool place". All the new projects are decentralized (as in the communities are isolated from each other, not in infrastructure) to the point of being like a giant ant farm, it makes it impossible to find things and also makes whatever genuine information they give out really tenuous because you never know how long the particular instance of a platform or chat server or whatever you are looking at will remain up.

Really I just hope all the shit you begrudgingly need to add "site:reddit.com" to in order to get actual search results for is still usable. Watching the site genuinely burn would make me actively worse at troubleshooting tech.

21h since you commented and I'm amazed nobody has come along to tell you how ChatGPT is going to kill both Reddit and Google and mean you won't even need to troubleshoot anything anymore. So yeah, that, apparently.

Reddit is just apollo backend. They could easily build the backend themselves.

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