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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by TX81Z on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:30AM (#36278052)
It’s like he’s implying it’s the third party apps fault he can’t make money on a user base that big with that much engagement. Which is an…odd take.
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by LeeroyWasHere on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:33AM (#36278065)
He has said in the past that no one uses 3rd party apps and they're not a meaningful amount of their traffic. Non stop contradiction and lies.
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by shiftpgdn on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:39AM (#36278112)
Major subreddits I’ve seen run polls show that less than 3% of users are using third party apps.
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by hysan on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:59AM (#36278245)
Isn’t polling one of the features that Reddit doesn’t provide an API for? I think that would skew poll results heavily. I know Apollo can’t do polls and it’s one of the reasons I never partake in them on Reddit.
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by bmarquez on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:23AM (#36278400)
You can't vote on a poll using a 3rd party app. For example, if you click on a poll using Apollo, it opens the Reddit website as a new window and you have to log in again and vote through that website.

This level of friction means I've never voted in a Reddit poll unless I was on a computer, and many other 3rd party app users probably act similarly.

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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by rapind on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:33AM (#36278459)
It's impressive this many 3rd party app users went through the hassle IMO (3% of the whole).
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by dvngnt_ on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:20AM (#36279622)
PC gaming over 20 percent
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by megablast on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:40AM (#36278114)
What lie? He didn’t say that. He didn’t imply that.
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by teaearlgraycold on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:39AM (#36278110)
Cope
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by busyant on Sunday June 11, 2023 @09:09PM (#36287399)
> He has said in the past that no one uses 3rd party apps and they're not a meaningful amount of their traffic.

I wish I had known about the Apollo app before all this drama. I would have gladly paid because the official mobile and iPad apps are atrocious.

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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by yanderekko on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:43AM (#36278138)
I don't read that as the implication at all. He's saying that Reddit needs to make changes to become profitable, while making a jab at the fact that some of the 3P apps have a financial interest in preserving the status quo.
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by TX81Z on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:50AM (#36278193)
Ok, even in that scenario if you’re this many years in, have this many users, this many daily posts, and your underlying tech is a CRUD app, it’s not because you have a free API. It’s because you royally screwed up many, many, many things.
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Re:Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddi... by yanderekko on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:57AM (#36278238)
>Ok, even in that scenario if you’re this many years in, have this many users, this many daily posts, and your underlying tech is a CRUD app, it’s not because you have a free API.

Well, the argument is that it at least partially because they have a free/cheap API. And they're willing to stake a lot on betting that changing this will pay off.

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