I bought Relay Pro many years back, but now I use a modded APK instead. It's not that I don't respect dbrady, he's great, but I won't pay reddit to use their api.
Did the kinks get worked out of that or is it still like playing whack a mole? I had a dev accounted and a modded redditisfun apk but it stopped working and I couldn't be botherrd to do it again yet. Just been using old reddit on my phone browser
I don't know when you'll have used it, but I have had no issue with my apk from the moment I installed it. ReVanced's patching experience was very smooth.
Dont you think that if you do that he will be in big trouble? Reddit will just track their usage and see traffic from his software, thus charge him money. Just use the Red Reader app, its not perfect but much more smooth and stable that the garbage official app.
No because they won't see that it's coming from his app so there's no way he'd be in trouble? The app is just code, you can edit it to give it a different signature and pair another API key with it. This way Relay works perfectly for me (insofar as it will never go past the update right before the API changes kicked in), and I don't have to give anything to reddit.
From what I understand they held off on making the API changes till after the IPO so that their stats don't drop. I think they're happening on July 1st
I'm not sure I understand. The API changes already happened and querying the API >100 times per minute is chargeable. Very few apps survived, among them being RedReader (because it's designed as an accessibility app) and Relay (because it implemented a subscription feature where you pay for your API usage).
If you have Android, you can also fiddle things and use old, pre-API change, versions of third party app apks to keep using them indefinitely. It takes very little to set up and will let you keep using the mobile apps over the official one.
I couldnt find Relay or that Dystopia someone else recommended, but I did find one called Narwhal 2 that is better than the Reddit app so far
I thought all third parties were dead. It says I have a free three-day trial and didnt give me a cost yet, so we’ll see if it’ll bw worth keeping. I’m not paying more than $1 for reddit lol
Shouldnt have to pay for this stuff at all just because reddit got greedy as all heck
With their track record so far I'm surprised they haven't killed old.reddit and/or done anything to break the site for people using an adblocker yet.
Reddit really only has a couple things that give it value as a company one is potential ad revenue, but more importantly is it's potential as a resource to sway public opinion and as a resource for data on all aspects of public opinion. Also with AI such a factor now just the raw data has it's own value.
To the shareholders and the C suite folks in charge the people who actually use and enjoy reddit don't factor in except for their value as a resource or a product.
I fucking hate that we can't just make a good thing and then leave it. It must show ever increasing monetary return and scale up infinitely, destroying everything that was good about it in the first place over time.
Reddit could have gone into maintenance mode over 10 years ago instead of increasing in business size and building towards entering the stock market, and the site would have been so much better.
With their track record so far I'm surprised they haven't killed old.reddit and/or done anything to break the site for people using an adblocker yet.
Realistically, we can probably expect old.reddit killed off within a year or two for "reasons." There'll be another site redesign so they can force a shittier algorithm akin to TikTok/YT Shorts/Instagram down our throats to try and make this dying shithole more addictive, and old.reddit will be a casualty.
Seeing what happened with Google trying to do anti-adblock on Youtube, I doubt Reddit has the resources to try to pull anything like that off. For Google it was months of constant fighting with adblock creators to try and get more casual users off of it, I'm guessing they didn't even think they would make adblock unusable forever. Reddit presumably has far fewer resources than Google, so beyond a few easily bypassed attempts I don't see them trying to pour much effort into that money hole.
i've been using Redreader since the API changes, it works well. There are ways to get RIF and a few other apps to work, but i think you have to do some stuff to do it and redreader has been good enough for me to not bother. Not sure if it's on iOS, I only use it on my android.
Just create your own private subreddit of which you are the moderator and many reddit apps will work including NSFW.
I use Boost, but I think it's no longer on the app store so you will have to side load it. I don't think this trick works with RIF though.
Yep, like 90% of traffic I imagine nowadays, it’s just the easiest way for a lot of the world to use reddit casually, most new users don’t know about old.reddit for desktop and the default desktop reddit might be one of the worst website interfaces ever made.
if you're on a pc you have to go to the account settings and there's an option to default it to old.reddit. It MAY be a Reddit Enhancement Suite option, but Im pretty sure it's there by default. If not, get RES, it's a tiny browser addon and it adds some functionality, like night mode and infinite scroll (though that might be default now as well, i've used RES for so long i'm not even sure).
Losers tried to flex their collective power, were threatened to be removed from the small amount of power they wielded, then crumbled immediately and are back to working for free.
Reddit was removing a valuable feature - third party apps. And they did it in a bad way. They alienated many of the people that essentially worked for them for free during that time. Many of those people tried to bring public attention to the problem and how it would effect their future content, but as it turns out, people couldn't be bothered enough by the issue.
And it's all cross posted shit. Reddit has shrunk significantly since the nuking of 3rd party APIs. It's all basically r/pics and lame creative writing rage bait r/amitheasshole and its clones
Am I right in thinking a lot of ‘amitheasshole’ stories seem fake? There’s always some bullshit sounding story that’s upvoted close to the top or reddit.
Definitely. It's always some ridiculous bait with a title like "amita for divorcing my pregnant wife" then the post is like "my wife was making gangbang-exclusive porn twice a day for 5 years without telling me and she sexually assaulted our dog and the kid turned out to be a half-dog abmonination then she stole all our money for drugs. I'm a saint who's never done anything wrong and gave her 40 chances to change and now all my family says I'm wrong for leaving her. amita?"
Most likely that the removed post was made by a bot, which after a day or two switches to OF/T-Shirt scam/... spam. There is a significant amount more than people realize, especially in the animal subs.
I was migrating my account sub to another and yes, I'm subbed to 100+ but only see posts from a dozen of them and you barely see anyone mention new interesting subs like people used to years ago.
There's a journalist who wrote a book on "the enshittification of the internet". I've not read his book but heard an episode if the underworld podcast where he was interviewed. It wound being mostly monologue but I didn't mind because the dude was on fire and saying all the things I hadn't quite been able to put into words.
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