last vestiges of reddit usefulness removed - .JSON no more
Rdx is a free Reddit reader that emerged after the API controversy. It was always limited - couldn't post, couldn't login, but utilized a hidden feature of reddit - you could just add .JSON to the end of a subreddit url and get the content back in in a useful format for an app like RDX to ingest.
From the RDX developer:
Last night reddit disabled JSON feeds that is affecting your usage of rdx website and app. I am trying to find ways to fix this. Maybe I can fix the apps using some workaround, maybe I can't but I will try. You can keep the apps or get the apps from app stores.
Thanks for your support for RDX for over 3 years. A small project that reached millions of people.
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Seems to still work under old.reddit.com: https://old.reddit.com/r/woodworking.json
it works in the browser but I keep getting 403's when trying with cURL or Python requests or Powershell. My usual goto of spoofing my browser's user agent in the header doesn't work either.
Ahh damn, maybe it’s behind CloudFlare or something now.
Old.reddit is not long for this world either. It's just a matter of time.
tbh I’m surprised they haven’t killed it off the way they’ve done with everything else; but when it is done, I’ll stop lurking over there.
Thought someone said, perhaps with no proof, that a great deal of content comes from old users and they didn't want to cut that off obviously.
Same story here though. Old goes and I go.
Same. If old. goes, reddit is dead to me. I don't know how anyone can stand the absolute clusterfuck that is "new" reddit.
I don't go on reddit often but I do check my old subscribed subreddits occasionally and if they killed old reddit I'd be gone. I don't interact or see ads though so I guess they wouldn't care about losing me
Same. Only reason I browse specific subreddits is because of old.reddit
Oh that's interesting, proves that they don't even look at it anymore. Might fix the issue with one of my scripts. Otherwise I can't be bothered to add oauth to it.
There's always still Redreader, I guess.
That's what I use when I have to, but I do kind of hate it. But it's miles better than the official app.
Yeah, it took me awhile to get used to it. But I like it now that I have.
I use rdx and noticed this yesterday. I know the rdx dev is here on lemmy as well but I forgot his username.
Edit: PSA, the search function on the app still works, so you can still navigate to a specific sub, but you’ll have to know the exact name because auto-complete doesn’t work there.
They still have the RSS feeds I presume? Its possible to make an app based on those.
There is also a active slide fork:
https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Slide
I was able to use an app called Nara until just recently. It was read-only in free mode, but at least I could browse and read reddit without their own dogshit app. I wonder if this is related.
Spez going off the deep end again
hes an alien humanoid he has no feelings for humans.