Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit "was never designed to support third-party apps"
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”
The company says more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities (by daily active users) are now open.
I mean, this is just an outright lie right? Multiple devs have talked about how the Reddit team has been in contact to warn in advance of feature changes, and they have most certainly been in the team's mind over the last few years from the time of Alien Blue to today.
The actual pricing that Reddit was going to charge ($12k/50million calls) was never shared until 30 days before it was set to go live. If the pricing hadn't been modeled after Twitter and been more reasonable, then 3rd party app developers wouldn't have been happy about the 30 day notice but it would have at least been possible to hit that deadline.
He'll say whatever as CEO. "News organisations" will megaphone out what he says and that drown and dissenting voices.
In fairness, the Verge has so far been covering this really well - their segment with Christian on the Vergecast was some of the best reporting I've heard about the issue.
Isn't the official Reddit app also just a third party app that they bought 😅. It really starts to sound like he just tries to say anything that could help divide uninformed users from third party app developers, even if it makes no sense and everybody with some knowledge about Reddits history knows it is a lie.
Yes it is. They took a wonderful and well created Alien Blue and turned it into the hot garbage you see today. Reddit went years without their own app and ruined the one they purchased.
I really owe Steve one for opening my eyes to Lemmy. I'll certainly never go back to Reddit, other than perhaps the occasional Google search for an IT question somebody solved 10 years ago.
But as far as actively contributing? Having a Reddit account? Nope, I'm done. I was very active on Reddit, and I haven't posted since the announcement.
But despite me and many others leaving, I really feel for Christian and the other developers. They really got fucked. The 30 day turnaround was an absurd notice to give someone, and Steve didn't have any defense to give for that, according to this article. He seems like a really ruthless, uncaring person.
Huffman says. “It was never designed to support third-party apps.” According to Huffman, he “let it exist,” and “I should take the blame for that because I was the guy arguing for that for a long time.”
If Statement A and B are both true, is this just not the absolute failure of the former jailbait advocate as CEO? Should Reddit not have been designed to support third-party apps if you, as CEO are advocating for them? This entire interview just feels like the king incel's trying to gaslight us into believing it's a lost cause. If so, we might as well continue, eh?
Their stats page also admits that they've lost >15% of their top 5000 communities. I wonder how that'd translate if we looked at the top 100 or top 50?
Just the sheer fact that they refer to a protest day as a "fun option" tells me all I need to know.
Does he have a disease that forces him to lie at every opportunity?
He belongs in Congress, with his own kind.
This man is a joke
Reddit bought a third-party app so it could have an official iOS app.
Lol Reddit wouldn't have half the community it does without third party apps. They built Reddit because Reddit couldn't be bothered.
If it wasnt desugned to support 3rd party apps then maybe you should have had an official one before 2016?
lmao he keeps doubling down for some reason
Didn't the 3rd party apps predate the official one by several years?
Yes. Many of them. I use Baconreader which predates the official Reddit App by like four years.
Not only that, their official app was a third party app that they bought and rebranded.
RIP Alien Blue.