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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 2 years ago (8 children)

So they designed an API that they didn't intend thirdparties to use at all? And documented it publicly without the intention of any devs reading the docs? Right.

What annoys me the most is that they would rather force users to see their ads and interract with their new and useless engagement features than just take payment directly from us, the users, for accessing the API. I'll gladly pay for a premium++ ultra gold plus reddit subscription to continue using Sync. I don't get why they would rather charge the 3rd party devs that literally gives them more users.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 years ago

And the api didn’t expose ads. It’s not like the apps chose not to display them. It wasn’t even an option.

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