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The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark | Many major third-party apps are finally shutting down. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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After a month of outrage, protests, and unrest from the community, Reddit has finally flipped the switch to shut down some third-party apps, including Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader.

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[–] Fez 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were a bunch of different ways Reddit could have handled the API changes (and the “profitability” standpoint). They seemed to choose exactly the wrong move.

[–] dark_shines11 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's super weird. Either they did want to kill 3rd party apps and not admit it, and thought it would go down better than it did. Might have been okay if they didn't go after the Apollo dev.

Or they really underestimated how much people would pay to use reddit/emotional investment for the 3rd party app devs. And genuinely thought some apps would do it within 1 month.

I guess the former, but like just admit it rather than bullshit people. At least then you would get some respect for honesty