Apollo dev: "I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership... cares about developers anymore."

Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse::Apollo dev: “I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership… cares about developers anymore.”

  • @[email protected]English
    66•5 months ago

    RedReader gets a barely-glance in a single sentence. A single dev (and with users providing PRs) has one of the best, and most unknown, apps for over a decade now. Really? QuantumBadger also put up quite a fight in favor of other developers, was openly critical about the changes and the handling of the situation, and was smart enough to record calls to prove that what reddit was saying was 180 from what they were doing. And all this could be gleaned from 15 minutes on their subreddit. Cmon, if you’re going to do ‘investigative journalism’, investigate each equally, fucks sake.

    • @[email protected]English
      44•5 months ago

      I guess Ars writers can’t be too critical to Reddit. They’re owned by the same parent company (condé nast) afterall. The fact that they’re even allowed to cover this topic by their corporate overlord is already a miracle.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
        35•5 months ago

        There was this piece on Youtube I watched a while back, where a news company was investigating itself (think it was cnbc or something). They reached out to themselves for a comment, got no response, and included that in the video 🙃

        I hope that reporter is still employed there lol

    • RentlarEnglish
      13•5 months ago

      RedReader by QuantumBadger was my main Reddit app, which I used for 6 years, so much so that my old phone had the back, sort and refresh icons burned into the screen. Reddit’s official app was hot garbage six years ago and still is today.

      If Reddit management hadn’t acted with such hostility, there’s a chance I would have stayed on RedReader… I’d known for a while change was coming to the site and it would continue to be for the worse. I’m so happy to have a nice place like Lemmy to go to instead.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•5 months ago

        Do note! RR is supposed to get lemmy support, as they are expecting their api access to end at some point, and lots of users migrated here. It hasn’t happened yet but try to check either the sub or the Github from time to time (or just get notified by watching the gh releases tbh).

        I was using RR (am, it’s still on my device) since basically launch, and I was the one who suggested that qb open an avenue for donations. I’ve been a patreon for the last… 2 years? Basically my first ‘I’m never giving this one up, this is a permanent install’. 11 years later, still going.

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦English
      11•5 months ago

      RedReader gets a barely-glance in a single sentence. A single dev (and with users providing PRs) has one of the best, and most unknown, apps for over a decade now.

      RedReader is definitely a gem. Incredible app that still works despite the Reddit appocalypse.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•5 months ago

        How does it even work? I thought the api changes made 3rd party apps effectively impossible?

        • @[email protected]English
          8•5 months ago

          It got an exception so Reddit could look accessibility friendly as they attempt to make their app compliant