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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark (www.pcmag.com)

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'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 9 points 1 year ago

Same for me, but I used Boost (and before that, Slide).

On my phone, Jerboa is good enough. On the desktop, I'm more interested in finding specific information, so I still read Reddit sometimes. If Reddit doesn't reverse course, I'll just drop my account and only use Reddit read only with an ad blocker.

Most of my Reddit browsing was on my phone, and about half of the rest was me providing content to Reddit. I would've been happy to pay for an ad-free tier (say, $5/year; I paid for a couple others before I recently switched to Boost) on a decent mobile app, but I want my choice of app because the official one sucks. I would also be happy to pay for an ad-free desktop tier per account (say, $10-20 fixed), and if so, I would still be contributing content.

But no, Reddit had to go and ruin their platform. So I'm out, and I'll simply be a leech from now on.