Christian Selig (@christianselig@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
Got off my call with Reddit just now about the API. Bad news unless I come up with 20 million dollars (not joking). Appreciate boosts. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
  •  ziby0405   ( @ziby0405@lemmy.ml ) 
    7•1 year ago

    Teddit and similar apps actually use the “anonymous” API, so once this API change comes in, those apps are basically dead without rewrites. Some ideas coming up are full page scraping (would require a lot of new coding and new issues like rate limits and etc), RSS scraping (would not be as complete information wise).

    libreddit issue

    teddit issue

      •  Ephera   ( @Ephera@lemmy.ml ) English
        5•1 year ago

        Yeah, I’m often thankful to people building these frontends, because ultimately a lot of human information is in those corporate silos and accessing them via a frontend is better than directly.

        But at the same time, I would never build such a frontend myself, for the reason you mentioned.
        All it takes, is a bunch of profiteering dickwad investors, to make your efforts go poof.

      •  wiki_me   ( @wiki_me@lemmy.ml ) 
        3•1 year ago

        its ultimately up to the whims of some evil company to waste the hundreds of hours they spent building those apps.

        Or the cheapskate users who don’t want to fund open source alternatives …