Users have been protesting the changes for days.
In his AMA, Huffman seemed to shut the door on making amends with the apps that are closing their doors. “Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses and will close before pricing goes into effect,” Huffman said. “For the other apps, we will continue talking. We acknowledge that the timeline we gave was tight; we are happy to engage with folks who want to work with us.
Based on what I’ve heard, that last sentence doesn’t ring entirely true; Tony Lupeski, the developer of ReddPlanet, tells me that he has tried to contact Reddit three times since the initial announcement of changes but has been “ignored every time.” And a Redditor asked if it would be possible for the company to delay the API pricing by 90 days, to which
, “We’re continuing to work with folks who want to work with us. For what it’s worth, this includes many of the apps thatOne Redditor asked why Reddit will no longer let explicit / NSFW content appear in third-party apps — a restriction that rif is fun for Reddit noted as one of the reasons it would be shutting down. “It’s a constant fight to keep this content at all,”. “We are going to keep it.
Another Redditor asked how Huffman would address concerns that Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven. “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,”
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