This is one thing that I’m still scratching my head about. Like, Reddit said no once, and everyone just shrugged and moved on.

I’d understand if most just threw in the towel completely and never wanted to work with Reddit at all, but it seems most would prefer continue to work on their apps.

And since most apps were free or even FOSS, why not say screw that, and make a (perhaps) last update with a field for the user to enter their own key?

Of course only a few users would take advantage of that, but then there’s even less reason for Reddit to actually care about that, if they could even detect it at all.

I know some forks may pop up, I’m just wondering about the devs themselves.

  • @empireOfLove
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    11 year ago

    Sure, they can ban the account of anyone using API keys like that, it’s transparent to detect. Then they all get mad and come after the developer.

    That was a nonstarter. Was not going to happen, Reddit needed those apps dead.