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View submission: [Announcement] Reddit's upcoming API changes and impact on toolbox.
Yep, Reddit is really hitting it out the park with shitty decisions. Not to mention that these API changes make it harder for us mods to do our work, but it hinders spam detection. There's been a HUGE wave of repost bots, and Reddit has done absolutely nothing to block these.
It might even be Reddit astroturfing their own site to boost post and engagement stats, just like they were caught doing previously[1].
Comment by MinimumArmadillo2394 at 05/06/2023 at 17:33 UTC
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There's a ton of things that impact users negatively too. Between re-re-making chat (There is now messaging, chat, and legacy chat -- of which 2 do the exact same thing), hiding home feed sorting then removing it stating it wasn't used, all the way to re-creating the video player and putting an online status indicator. None of this has helped the user experience at all.