Reddit and its communities are preparing for a life after the platform’s API changes forced popular third-party apps to shut down.

  • ffolkes@fanexus.com
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    1 year ago

    They DID do that, when they bought Alien Blue. Then they promptly destroyed it. Good UX != profits. So they butchered it into some sort of zombie app where everything was designed to make them money. And that’s why they are pushing so hard to make EVERYONE use it.

    If anything, they hate 3PA devs because they show users what the experience could be like - how good and clean it could be - if they didn’t have a greedy corporation trying to sabotage everything.

    They don’t need to hire anyone to pacify them. Reddit doesn’t gaf what happens to the devs, whether they are pacified or not. It’s like a tiny baby fish cursing the ship that just harvested 120,000 fish in a net. The ship laughs, and sails away.

    Hopefully things will be better once federation grows in popularity. I know I’ve been using it daily since this all started. But sadly I have to augment with reddit because there just aren’t enough people here yet.

    • HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I had no idea that was the history involved. This makes more sense now why maybe reddit has a vendetta against quality developers. haha