[jorams]

A weird aspect of the reddit API crackdown is that they never actually shut down unauthenticated access to the API. rif is fun also still works (or worked last time I started it a month or two ago), it's just read-only. The JSON endpoints Geddit uses are the reddit API, and it's wide open, so in no way is it "bypassing API restrictions".

[__jonas]

When I used to browse reddit, the main thing I was interested in was my accounts feed of posts from all the subreddits I was subscribed to, I assume this is what the API that was shut down offered vs just this JSON view of a single subreddit

[creesch]

Not entirely, depending on what you want from those endpoints. A lot of the information and features of new reddit are not accessible through those json endpoints as they never have been updated. They also have a much lower ratelimit restriction when logged out.

Also, they are part of the API much of which is actually restricted behind authorization.

[immibis]

They've drastically tightened rate limits. What we could use is a distributed API system so each of us could fetch requests under the limit, and together build a complete feed again, which could be displayed openly.

[bravetraveler]

Well yeah, when they sell the data people need an endpoint!

Drug trade, online. The first taste is free. Authenticating it digs into the profits.