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Comment by azalemeth | Hacker News Reader

Geddit still works and it's a great app (it can read posts labelled nsfw without an account). The other working one I know of is RedReader, which Reddit have left unbroken due to its advanced accessibility features for disabled readers (but it cannot access nsfw things -- you get a message saying to use the website).

My shared IP has been network blocked by Reddit and anonymous browsing is disabled. I also see about fifty captchas per day. I really, really miss the old web and plain text too...

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A weird aspect of the reddit API crackdown is that they never actually shut down unauthenticated access to the API. rif is fun also still works (or worked last time I started it a month or two ago), it's just read-only. The JSON endpoints Geddit uses are the reddit API, and it's wide open, so in no way is it "bypassing API restrictions".

When I used to browse reddit, the main thing I was interested in was my accounts feed of posts from all the subreddits I was subscribed to, I assume this is what the API that was shut down offered vs just this JSON view of a single subreddit

Well yeah, when they sell the data people need an endpoint!

Drug trade, online. The first taste is free. Authenticating it digs into the profits.

They've drastically tightened rate limits. What we could use is a distributed API system so each of us could fetch requests under the limit, and together build a complete feed again, which could be displayed openly.

Not entirely, depending on what you want from those endpoints. A lot of the information and features of new reddit are not accessible through those json endpoints as they never have been updated. They also have a much lower ratelimit restriction when logged out.

Also, they are part of the API much of which is actually restricted behind authorization.

Rereader can access NSFW if the logged in account is a moderator, even of a one person subreddit.

Why don't you just use old.reddit.com ? Works great for me.

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