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Re:APIs for content sites must be free by dylan604 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:40PM (#36331453)
I stipulate that a 30 day notice for a major change from something that has been available for 17 years is pretty egregious. However, I'm still of the mind that when you build a company/product that 100% depends on a 3rd party existing or allowing one to play in their playground, these are the exact situations that can arise. You have to know that at some point, if the dependency is no longer available, neither is your product regardless of the reason for the lack of availability. That's just how it goes. Yes, it sucks to have the product of your blood, sweat, tears get invalidated, but that is where you chose to put that effort while knowing the caveats
Re:APIs for content sites must be free by simonw on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:50PM (#36331588)
Sure, and that's why I haven't built a commercial product on top of Reddit.

(I actually did run a startup on top of Twitter's API between 2010-2013 - I'm VERY glad not to have to worry about that any more!)

I'm not talking about this in terms of being an app developer: I'm talking about it in terms of being a regular user posting content on the site.

If you rug-pull my expectations on access to that data in the future, don't be surprised if I find somewhere else to spend my time.

Re:APIs for content sites must be free by dylan604 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:36PM (#36332243)
Sorry, with all of the recent Reddit 3rd party apps threads, I've crossed the streams with your case of just submitting content rather than being a 3rd party app
Re:APIs for content sites must be free by fuzzylightbulb on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @06:26PM (#36333658)
Ignore the app developers for a second.

What reddit is doing is horrible for the users. Reddit benefitted massively from 3rd party apps making it easier for users to contribute, comment, moderate, etc. Without those users' efforts the platform is worthless. That is the issue here.