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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
Not gonna lie, this response is the most concerning part of this entire post. You’re implying a lot, while saying nothing:
We’ve reached out to you to go over how these updates impact Apollo.
Okay, so there’s bad news coming, and you’re being very cagey about it. Got it. I imagine that when you actually have a call with Christian, you’ll ask that he not say anything until the changes are in place, which is probably an unfair requirement given what you imply next…
The impact depends on a number of things including the volume of API usage by each client and whether or not the usage is compliant with our terms.
You’re *definitely* going to start charging for API access. That’s pretty much the only thing this could mean.
Note that we will ensure that applications critical to the functioning of communities, e.g. mod bots and extensions are not impacted.
And that’s just weaselly. You’re answering a question that wasn’t being asked to try and deflect from the answers you’ve left out.
Y’all need to be *way* more clear on this. A huge number of your users use third-party apps regularly or exclusively, and your carefully-prepared mostly-meaningless statements aren’t doing anything but creating cause for concern. If there’s bad news, come out and say it; if there’s not, come out and say it anyway. You’re only hurting yourselves by being this vague about it.
Comment by BagOnuts at 08/06/2023 at 23:24 UTC
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So, you called every part of this, haha.