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Re:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave... by cardy31 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:26PM (#36347526)
If they wanted to work with third-party apps they could have charged reasonable rates for API access and could have offered a reasonable transition time. They gave them one month to transition their whole business onto a new model to make the costs work. This was entirely bad-faith bargaining on Reddit’s part, and NPR should be ashamed for publishing Reddit’s press release for them.
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Re:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave... by pessimizer on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:36PM (#36347678)
> should be ashamed for publishing Reddit’s press release for them.

I have a sinking feeling I'm going to be seeing this phrase posted thousands of times.

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Re:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave... by josephg on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:34PM (#36347658)
Yep. They could also have kept the api free but insisted that 3rd party apps show ads. The developer of Apollo also agrees that would have been reasonable. But no.
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Re:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave... by emodendroket on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:43PM (#36347786)
They could have but this would have still represented giving up a lot of control over how ads are shown.
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Re:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave... by josephg on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:08PM (#36348110)
Not necessarily. They could have added an extra requirement for accessing the api that Reddit must approve how ads are displayed.
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Re:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave... by emodendroket on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:10PM (#36348148)
Right, but if they control the app they can make changes on the fly whenever. If they have 10 partner apps then everything will be glacially slow.
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Re:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave... by josephg on Thursday June 15, 2023 @08:15PM (#36349041)
Its not like the way ads are presented changes a lot. But I acknowledge the point.

I think I wouldn't mind so much if their official app was anywhere near as good as Apollo.

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Re:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave... by aaomidi on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:02AM (#36356737)
I don't ack their point. They'd get one warning and then they'd be kicked out and it would be justified.
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