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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
we will be enforcing rate limits
The optimistic interpretation may be that they previously were not strict about enforcing the 60 request per minute limit, and now they are? The new data terms[1] make no reference to any specific limit.
1: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/data-api-terms
My pessimistic interpretation is that this seems way too similar to what's happened with the Twitter API - both thinking back to the *original* free API getting overturned years ago, and the recent further limitations.
So much of the mobile reddit user experience seems explicitly designed to drive you to the app at any expense, including by degrading the experience on mobile browsers. I've been concerned for a long while that they might start going after 3rd party clients next. Regardless of the rate limits, restricting NSFW content from the API limits seems like a tool for exactly that goal.
There's nothing here!