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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)

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[–] Notnotmike@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It could have also been avoided by grandfathering current apps into the original pricing (or a new, lower tier) which would have allowed them to still charge. I was hopeful that the negotiations would trend towards that way but instead they decided to double-down

[–] provisional 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, they definitely could have grandfathered current apps into a new low tier for 1-2 years and have separate tiers for AI/LLMs, 3rd party apps, and bots. Also, they could expose their ads through their API, so app developers can run their ads and potentially continue calling the API for free.