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View submission: [Announcement] Reddit's upcoming API changes and impact on toolbox.
You're not wrong... We've had traffic drops through the years, and almost always it is distressing easy to tie them to site level decisions and changes that impacted us negatively and which we just have to deal with and absorb. Some can be counteracted to a degree... but very death by 1000 cuts.
What sucks the most is that there are admins who I've worked with before who I think really do get it, and really do want to make things work for communities... But no one can convince me otherwise that internally reddit is a mess where departments don't communicate or coordinate. Doesn't matter how good one group is... Another group basically is going to sabotage whatever improvements they might be trying to do.
Comment by creesch at 05/06/2023 at 18:33 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Oh yeah for sure. I was looking for something else earlier and came across this comment chain on hackernews[1]. Hard to verify if any of it is true of course, but at least on the surface it seems to track with the sort of communication about numbers I have seen admins do to the outside world.
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27641366
Comment by chopsuwe at 08/06/2023 at 22:38 UTC*
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Content removed in protest of Reddit treatment of users, moderators, the visually impaired community and 3rd party app developers.
If you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks: Reddit abruptly announced[1] they would be charging astronomically overpriced API fees to 3rd party apps, cutting off mod tools. Worse, blind redditors & blind mods (including mods of r/Blind and similar communities) will no longer have access[2] to resources that are desperately needed in the disabled community.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14ds81l/rblinds_meetings_with_reddit_and_the_current/
Removal of 3rd party apps
Moderators all across Reddit rely on third party apps to keep subreddit safe from spam, scammers and to keep the subs on topic. Despite Reddit’s very public claim that "moderation tools will not be impacted", this could not be further from the truth despite 5+ years of promises from Reddit. Toolbox in particular is a browser extension that adds a huge amount of moderation features that quite simply do not exist on any version of Reddit - mobile, desktop (new) or desktop (old). Without Toolbox, the ability to moderate efficiently is gone. Toolbox is effectively dead[3].
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/creesch/comments/14fxzr4/so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_fish/
All of the current 3rd party apps are either closing or will not be updated. With less moderation you will see more spam (OnlyFans, crypto, etc.) and more low quality content. Your casual experience will be hindered.