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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
Our intention is to make Dev Platform the best place to build bots and apps for Reddit. That said, we aren’t planning on forcing anyone to migrate to Dev Platform. The bots you’ve built for r/wallstreetbets have been an inspiration for how we’ve designed Dev Platform and we’re excited about what you’re doing on Dev Platform already. It saves devs like you from having to write hacky shit across a bunch of REST APIs at the expense of possibly having to learn some TypeScript.
The issue here, as many devs posting here learned the hard way when Twitter limited their API in the same way, is that there's now a loss of developer trust and it may no longer be worth the developer time to continue developing such bots even though they add massive value to Reddit as a whole.
There's a reason Jack Dorsey strongly regretted[1] killing Twitter's API back then.
Comment by KeyserSosa at 18/04/2023 at 18:29 UTC
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Twitter also changed the terms without much advanced notice (arguably twice over the last decade). This post tries to be explicit with what we *are* changing and also when we are going to do so (60 days).
Point here (among several others) is that if Dev Platform ends up being a successor to the current API, it has to earn that place.