Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators
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The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
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The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
I think we're gonna see another huge blow to Reddit in a few days when all the third-party apps go permanently offline. I'll bet that a lot of people who haven't been paying attention so far are definitely going to start having something to say about it very soon.
Maybe, I'm certainly in that camp. Once RIF stops working I'll stop using Reddit. I don't know that there are a lot of people like me though (and the ones that are are probably here already).
When RiF dies, I'll stop using reddit on mobile.
I'll probably check-in occationally when I'm on desktop, but that'll signifigantly reduce my time on the site.
I've already stopped using reddit altogether on my phone. I moved Apollo off my homescreen.
And I still check reddit on desktop here and there, but that's mostly to check mod messages. And to see what that latest admins are threatening me with. I got 3 small subs that are private. And reddit doesn't like that.
At least Apollo put up a huge honking alert dialog about the situation, it was impossible to miss.
This will be when the true test for Reddit begins; if the outcry is large enough that spez ends up relenting in some way then he will have already alienated a lot of users. If the outcry is minimal then I guess he won, but the prize hardly seems worth the drama that has been spun up.
It isn't going to be outcry, it is going to be drop in traffic. Spez is gambling that third party app users will switch to the official app. I won't, and I hope most others don't.