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.
A shit ton if people have been fighting hard for the last month. 8000 subs, people have been campaigning and making dedicated web sites to follow what’s up and to connect. There’s been immense effort put into this from lots of people.
A few hours of work to pull the dev’s key out and make the fields editable doesn’t seem like much in comparison.
(I’m not demanding anyone to put their time for free to do this or anything. I’m just curious why this was such a no-go from the start while all the other campaigns were on full throttle.)
Ed: Btw look how e.g. Nintendo is hostile to everyone and yet people keep making fan games and whatnot…
Pretty sure 99% of the people here participated in the effort, when Reddit showed they wouldn’t budge after the first blackout, we knew the fight was over, why beg to stay over with your abusive partner?