That's not gonna last long
I mean what's the point. This is all just going to pay Reddit for the privilege of a hobbled 3rd-party app experience (and no NSFW). And we now know how much Reddit cares about you using their API.
You honestly can't blame them for trying to adapt and keep their project going. It's either they start doing a subscription model or Infinity dies. They aren't allowed to make a tutorial for you to just replace their API key with your own, so what choice do they have? (you can do that btw, there are tutorials on the Infinity subreddit, although you're limited to 100 calls a day)
I payed Infinity+ just to support this amazing app. I remember Infinity being one of my first true approached to the FOSS community, "It's free, built by pretty much one person, Reddit is a multimillion dollar company, how can this app be better!?.. But pretty much every penny Infinity makes from now on will go to the greedy Reddit admins' hands so I guess this is goodbye.
Such a damn shame.
the app is better because u/spez has no control over it
Yeeaah I just uninstalled Infinity. It was my go to app for years after Slide fizzled out. Not sure how many users that are into open source will be willing to pay Reddit..
Same, it's a bit sad, but I've not used it for weeks and I'm certainly not going to start paying
I guess my hope, although knowing it is naive and improbable, is that come 1st of July, the few people that were staying to see If reddit backtracked their terrible mistake, following the shutting down of the 3rd party apps will either stop using reddit all together or slowly begin using it less and less, that much I think will happen.
Then, my hope is, seeing the slow down on content creation, traffic and user interactions reddit will slowly and discreetly, trying to save fuck-spez's face, roll back on some choices or make some concessions to allow 3rd party apps to come back ... But not holding my breath on it.
I know at this point in time, seeing spez dissimisive attitude and knowing it's not on their best interest to look weak or relinquish control of the site to the user base, once the decision was made, they won't go back unless the ramifications are near catastrophic, like losing all together 100% of the people that like me used 3rd party to browse reddit.
End of rambling.
I agree with you. I love Infinity, but Reddit is dead to me.