But potentially consider this comment from the linked reddit post. It is heartbreaking.
> I'm just so tired! That is all! I'm so tired of feeling left behind by people who aren't aware, and who don't care. The choices we have for social media really aren't much, and if they don't care about third party apps, what else are they going to throw away? Will we lose this place too?
The decision has many side effects that Reddit is not acknowledging and it is important to recognize the importance that an API can have, particuarly on accessibility.
Will reddit survive. Oh yeah, they will be absolutely fine. But their decision does negatively impact the world and that is the important story here.
I think its just frustrating to see the same pattern over and over. Start with a user centric experience, capture a large market, progressively worsen experience to make it more appealing to investors (they love bland and stale apparently), then the website dies a slow death and becomes hated by its former advocates.
But hey its fine because the cycle is starting again and there's a shiny new thing focused on its users we can all move to.
But potentially consider this comment from the linked reddit post. It is heartbreaking.
> I'm just so tired! That is all! I'm so tired of feeling left behind by people who aren't aware, and who don't care. The choices we have for social media really aren't much, and if they don't care about third party apps, what else are they going to throw away? Will we lose this place too?
The decision has many side effects that Reddit is not acknowledging and it is important to recognize the importance that an API can have, particuarly on accessibility.
Will reddit survive. Oh yeah, they will be absolutely fine. But their decision does negatively impact the world and that is the important story here.