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by Mithaldu 3724 days ago
That is until they pull a Twitter and kill those clients.
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tokenizerrr 3724 days ago
They claim they are committed to supporting that free API[1]. And if they kill it, it would also kill all those reddit bots. There would be a massive outrage since many large subreddits rely on them for advanced automated moderation. There's AutoMod which they've integrated, but it's often not enough.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4dqxgt/reddi...

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kuschku 3724 days ago
Or they could just limit it to 10 IPs per API key. Kills all 3rd party clients, but leaves bots.
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tokenizerrr 3723 days ago
If anyone can sign up for a bot API key, then anyone can sign up for a 3rd party client API key. It'd add a step or two, but still.

Anyway, you don't need an API key at all currently. And they said they intend to support the current API.

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kuschku 3723 days ago
That’s what they said about Twitter, too.

And suddenly Falcon Pro was limited to 100'000 users.

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tunap 3724 days ago
Query. Is the borking of RSS feeds last couple months related? It was done so poorly(still borked despite assurances contrary)? Would be quite a convenient way to herd a bunch of RSS users to sign up PDQ to keep their TIL & ELI5 fetishes uninterupted.

I'm afraid I did the opposite, however. I don't need a new app, and again contrarily, I don't need a new feed reader. My worthless trivia supeepowers are indeed in decline. Meh.

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