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Minecraft is leaving Reddit (media.kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Meanwhile all of the repost bots can post and comment on each other’s threads keeping the Reddit server humming away.

How are they going to do that when the API changes hit? The API changes affect all third party interactions with Reddit unless you scrape their HTML or do some type of browser automation. I'm going to assume that 99% of developers are using the REST API since there was no reason to do otherwise. That means mobile apps, bots, third party tools and probably even some browser extensions are all going to go dark.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

You can still use the APIs but you do it via a browser. So it is slightly more annoying for botters but a death blow for apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I hadn't thought about that, are they killing RES? Killing RES is the same as killing old reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They will be fine. But the extension itself is on its last legs. Reddit is slowly breaking old reddit by making features or markdown new reddit only. The team also seems to be down to 2 people and the project is in maintenance mode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

it's all done browser side on your api token so it will be fine.

but you are 100% correct, old reddit without dark mode is functionally the same as deleting reddit.