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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.
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
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 tools are they excepting?
I don't think any mod tools, but they've excepted some accessibility app.
What are the tools though and what do they do?
The main tool for me is Moderator Toolbox, others have other apps they're losing that make modding significantly easier.
Toolbox adds several functionalities that don't exist natively in reddit.
Here you have to copy the name of the user, navigate to the ban page, paste in the name and ban them.
Those are the tools I use in toolbox, but there are a lot more in Moderator Toolbox.
I have also set up bots using the api to help run community events. Things like keeping track of scores of user predictions that would be basically impossible to do without api access. For example, we ran a presidential primary prediction competition in the 2020 election, it would not have been reasonable to keep track of ~100 users predictions over the course of a few months without api access.