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Major subreddits I’ve seen run polls show that less than 3% of users are using third party apps.

Isn’t polling one of the features that Reddit doesn’t provide an API for? I think that would skew poll results heavily. I know Apollo can’t do polls and it’s one of the reasons I never partake in them on Reddit.

You can't vote on a poll using a 3rd party app. For example, if you click on a poll using Apollo, it opens the Reddit website as a new window and you have to log in again and vote through that website.

This level of friction means I've never voted in a Reddit poll unless I was on a computer, and many other 3rd party app users probably act similarly.

It's impressive this many 3rd party app users went through the hassle IMO (3% of the whole).

PC gaming over 20 percent

> He has said in the past that no one uses 3rd party apps and they're not a meaningful amount of their traffic.

I wish I had known about the Apollo app before all this drama. I would have gladly paid because the official mobile and iPad apps are atrocious.

What lie? He didn’t say that. He didn’t imply that.