The threshold is being increased from 60 to 100 for bots which didn't delegate auth, but not for any tools that used specific user-ids. It's misleading.

To quote from reddit's docs: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16160319875...

> Important note: Historically, our rate limit response headers indicated counts by client id/user id combination. These headers will update to reflect this new policy based on client id only on July 1, 2023.

Historically, reddit rate limited by user-id, so if for example, both of us logged in using a reddit app, each of us had a rate limit of 60/min free queries. Each app only gets one client-id, regardless of the number of users it has.

Now, the rate limit of 100 is per app, not per user-id, which obviously doesn't work for any tooling that acts on behalf of the user.

Reddit can only make those claims by ignoring "moderator tool" which used user-ids. In a very real sense, reddit apps like "reddit is fun" and "apollo" were moderator tools, and those are the biggest losers in this change.

You can see someone on reddit complaining about this too: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

I'm not saying that what they're saying is necessarily wrong, but their communication around these changes makes it hard to take them in good faith.