Shitty toilet paper buddy!

Going through an app also prevents the awful redirects.

Reddit is picking a fight with the internet…

Hopefully you don’t have any rogue mods. Apprently r/adviceanimals got the head mod replced by someone that seems to be more inline with the admins-reddit. (u/legweed -> u/CedarWolf)

Instead of working with the 3PA devs to come up with something that is a win-win for both parties, they’ve chosen self-destruct.

Most of the 3PA devs has already said, they are not against paying for API usage, as long as it’s a reasonable price. The pricing Reddit wants is definitely to kill 3PA.

It almost sounds like an excuse for Reddit to “revert” the site back and restore the site to pre-blackout state…

There seems to be a misconception by a lot of corporates that shoving ads down users throats will make the users want what is advertised.

Personally, I go out of my way to avoid anything that are shown to me intrusively.

I’m hoping that a lot of the subreddits that has gone dark would remain dark indefinitely. Granted, the Reddit admins might try to replace the mods on a lot of the subreddits - but at that point the community may not be the same anymore.

Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable - Steve Huffman, Reddit CEO

Translation - we don’t have control of the 3PA and they are getting in the way of moooore profit, so we want them gone.

That’s the only logical conclusion. Wouldn’t really make sense otherwise.