mintiefresh@lemmy.ca to Reddit@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoReddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’ - The Vergewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareKillaBeez@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoBullshit. I’ve been using third party apps before the official one ever existed
minus-squareaxtualdave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThe official app was a third party app until Reddit bought it.
minus-squareEric_Pollock@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoBefore I switched over here and this situation started getting big, I saw a post over on Reddit that explained how the “official” Reddit app was actually a third party app that they bought out…
minus-squareRandomStickman@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoYup. They bought Alien Blue, swapped the logo colour to orange, made it the official logo and called it a day.
minus-squaredie444die@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThis is not true. They also stripped out a shit ton of functionality.
minus-squareEric_Pollock@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoI was using Boost for Reddit, and I was always overwhelmed by the customization options. Absolutely loved it though.
Bullshit. I’ve been using third party apps before the official one ever existed
The official app was a third party app until Reddit bought it.
Before I switched over here and this situation started getting big, I saw a post over on Reddit that explained how the “official” Reddit app was actually a third party app that they bought out…
Yup. They bought Alien Blue, swapped the logo colour to orange, made it the official logo and called it a day.
This is not true. They also stripped out a shit ton of functionality.
I was using Boost for Reddit, and I was always overwhelmed by the customization options. Absolutely loved it though.