Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

Re:Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image ... by ffpip on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:58PM (#25174565)

Apollo for Reddit is a great app made by a solo dev!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

That is until they become even more greedy and ban third party apps. Probably by the end of next year. The reasons will be 'privacy of users' and 'letting users access reddit via a unified interface'. Or some bs like that

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Re:Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image ... by sksnskkcahan on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:40PM (#25174763)

As an ad-supported service, I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit refuse to serve clients that don’t show ads. On the other hand, I don’t think their API that Apollo is using includes ads. Same deal with third-party Twitter clients. I wonder if their are examples of similar ad-supported services that included ads in the API, and required the developer of the third-party client to implement ad support?

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Re:Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image ... by blackrock on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:11AM (#25175099)

Reddit should make an API feature to allow the 3rd party app, the ability to display the ads. Then, Reddit will do profit sharing of each ad shown. This would give the 3rd party app incentive to maintain the app.

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Re:Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image ... by ecnahc515 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @01:15PM (#25179562)

Why would they do that when they could just fully control access with their app and not have to worry about ensuring other clients show ads?

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