Reddit is not trying to kill third party apps, officially. Instead they're just pricing the API requests so ridiculously high that few, if any, will survive.
Consequently, nobody but the individual developers can tell you which ones are going to try and manage.
Hey. Like you, I have no idea what tools they are losing (have lost). I DO know that the mods know the tools and the mods were trying to work with the Reddit execs in order to make the transition better and more efficient. I know this because of posted texts/transcripts. I also know that Reddit has not been honest or arguing in good faith.
That's all I need to know. I don't need to know if a tool is called ice cube checker and it measures how much ice is in the cup I'm drinking, or if Ice Cube is in a new movie. It doesn't matter. What I do know tells me enough info to make my decision.
This isn’t accurate, the costs are 20 times what they should be. It makes the tools not exist, it doesn’t break them or make them harder to use. They said they made exceptions for some bots and things but they’ve constantly outright lied and continue to not meet promises on improvements to their app. People have been asking for things third party apps provide on the official reddit app for years and they never come through. I don’t know what specific tools are going to go away but reddit has made it clear they only care about making money now off all the content we have provided. They want to make the most money possible with all the newer users who don’t care about ads, tracking or the user experience. Every cent that goes to a third party app dev is money that should be going to reddit.
You just said the same thing I did while going significantly more in depth on the subject. My comment is the eli5 answer. It makes them harder to use by making the. Significantly more expensive. And it breaks them because devs can't pay for it. Thanks for going more in depth tho
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I found doing a lot of my basic mod actions very difficult on the main reddit app, where Apollo makes them second nature.
Will you be losing the ability to do any mod actions?
They're just much harder or not available on the reddit app, as opposed to 3rd party ones.
Reddit is not trying to kill third party apps, officially. Instead they're just pricing the API requests so ridiculously high that few, if any, will survive.
Consequently, nobody but the individual developers can tell you which ones are going to try and manage.
Hey. Like you, I have no idea what tools they are losing (have lost). I DO know that the mods know the tools and the mods were trying to work with the Reddit execs in order to make the transition better and more efficient. I know this because of posted texts/transcripts. I also know that Reddit has not been honest or arguing in good faith.
That's all I need to know. I don't need to know if a tool is called ice cube checker and it measures how much ice is in the cup I'm drinking, or if Ice Cube is in a new movie. It doesn't matter. What I do know tells me enough info to make my decision.
Here is what one mod had to say. There are more if you check out the mod subreddits like r/modsupport
They are making the API cost money which will make mod tools harder to use and essentially break but, apparently they have made exceptions for that
What tools are they excepting?
This isn’t accurate, the costs are 20 times what they should be. It makes the tools not exist, it doesn’t break them or make them harder to use. They said they made exceptions for some bots and things but they’ve constantly outright lied and continue to not meet promises on improvements to their app. People have been asking for things third party apps provide on the official reddit app for years and they never come through. I don’t know what specific tools are going to go away but reddit has made it clear they only care about making money now off all the content we have provided. They want to make the most money possible with all the newer users who don’t care about ads, tracking or the user experience. Every cent that goes to a third party app dev is money that should be going to reddit.
You just said the same thing I did while going significantly more in depth on the subject. My comment is the eli5 answer. It makes them harder to use by making the. Significantly more expensive. And it breaks them because devs can't pay for it. Thanks for going more in depth tho
The context is important.
What are the tools though and what do they do?