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Comment by pugworthy | Hacker News Reader

I'm guessing I'm not the only one who just uses the web and the official Reddit app, and basically is happy with it - no issues, no complaints. And so maybe only sees this as a business decision (good or bad) that's up to Reddit to make that will really not impact me at all.

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I would feel similarly if Reddit did not force you to log in to get non-shitty UX on those clients. I’m not even against ads necessarily, I just don’t want all my viewing habits to be tracked. It shouldn’t even be necessary to run relevant ads as they can simply be served based on the page/subreddit content. And given that Reddit seems to be generally bad at engineering I don’t trust them with any more data than they need

I'm a Reddit Mod and no issues with their web and app. It's basically very hard to moderate with third party clients, so there is no choice but to use their official platforms.

I've found Apollo's integration for moderation tools to be very well implemented.

I am the same, but I often find I am a purist. I prefer the native apps for most all services (Reddit, Twitter, etc.).

Third party apps are just missing too many features that I use like chat, voting in polls, live threads, etc. No idea whether that’s Reddit’s fault or the dev’s, but it’s a deal breaker regardless.

The APIs for those features were never made available to devs outside of Reddit, no doubt also a decision to drive users to the official site/app. If they had been made available, clients like Apollo would've been using them somewhere between a week and month after release.

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