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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
That's a whole lot of words to not actually say what's changing.
Our Data API will still be available to developers for appropriate use cases and accessible via our Developer Platform, which is designed to help developers improve the core Reddit experience, but, we will be enforcing rate limits.
Okay so you want new bots to use the devvit platform instead of the old api, makes sense.
We are introducing a premium access point for third parties who require additional capabilities, higher usage limits, and broader usage rights. Our Data API will still be open for appropriate use cases and accessible via our Developer Platform.
So, you're planning to just completely turn off free access to the public api? People have to use the devvit platform or pay? If that's not the case could you be more specific about what is being limited to the "premium access point" and what isn't?
Reddit will limit access to mature content via our Data API as part of an ongoing effort to provide guardrails to how sexually explicit content and communities on Reddit are discovered and viewed. (Note: This change should not impact any current moderator bots or extensions.)
Limit how? What content will be removed from what endpoints?
On the face of it this seems like the first step to disabling the public api completely, which would kill many bots whose authors don't want to rewrite the whole thing in the new platform (which is far from a trivial update). And also the start of disabling access for third party apps. As the author of many bots for many years, including u/RemindMeBot, could you please be more specific about what is actually changing.
Comment by DreadedChalupacabra at 20/04/2023 at 18:40 UTC
55 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Reddit really saw the backlash Elon is getting for messing with the Twitter API and went "We could do that too!"
Comment by KeyserSosa at 18/04/2023 at 18:07 UTC
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That's a whole lot of words to not actually say what's changing.
The legal terms are even longer.
Okay so you want new bots to use the devvit platform instead of the old api, makes sense.
Agreed. We’re designing the dev platform to a large extent around building better bots that can respond faster, etc.
So, you're planning to just completely turn off free access to the public api? People have to use the devvit platform or pay? If that's not the case could you be more specific about what is being limited to the "premium access point" and what isn't?
No. We’ve always had ratelimits in place for API usage, but we’ve not been the best about enforcement, clearing space for a premium tier (as mentioned) with higher limits, etc.
Reddit will limit access to mature content via our Data API as part of an ongoing effort to provide guardrails to how sexually explicit content and communities on Reddit are discovered and viewed. (Note: This change should not impact any current moderator bots or extensions.)
Limit how? What content will be removed from what endpoints?
We’re introducing additional safeguards to how developers access sexually explicit content from our API across all endpoints, ensure (all the while) not to break moderation flows that may depend on these.
On the face of it this seems like the first step to disabling the public api completely
Not the intent.
Comment by kiradotee at 09/06/2023 at 12:58 UTC
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As the author of many bots for many years, including u/RemindMeBot
Thank you for your work
Comment by ragnar_lama at 07/06/2023 at 21:35 UTC
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A comment in support of this comment. Reddit is fucked
Comment by somepianoplayer at 10/06/2023 at 19:04 UTC
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Reddit admin team has never been really transparent, this was to be expected honestly