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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was never designed to support third-party apps.

My brother in Christ… you bought a third party app that used the API

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait... they bought a third party app and rechristened it the official Reddit app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn’t the entire purpose of an API to provide access to other developers in the first place? It seems like he’s happy others did creative work for him and now he wants to take it and kick the ladder away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is literally the only reason to make an API public