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Boost for Reddit is working again? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I opened the app without thinking right now, and to my surprise it's working.

I mod an empty subreddit, which made it work before. It didn't load yesterday, and tonight it does without any changes on my side.

I was almost happy to get rid of reddit, but it's seems it is not for today.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The issue was never that it'd stop working completely. Instead, the API would limit the app once a certain number of requests happened, and charge for more. Since a lot of people use the app, there's a lot of requests, and it stops working quickly unless the developer pays.

Now that the app has been pulled from the market and it broke for everyone, it sees very little use. The limit doesn't get hit, and the app works. But if everyone starts using it again, it'll break again.

Edit: Just for kicks, I downloaded it from apkmirror and tried it. I very quickly got the 429 error when the API key has hit the limit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

If you are a mod you won't get the 429 error

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not actually sure if this is the case, supposedly the official app was having issues as well. Sounds like Reddit broke something again

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reddit broke the API and blocked everything with the user agent containing "Android". Even their own app didn't work on some Android phones, including mine. Couldn't load anything from the official app.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

As long as the bots had access it's all good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It never stopped working for me, besides the outage the other day. I'm guessing it's because I'm a mod for a sub. They said from the beginning that they wouldn't break things for mods, and surprisingly, it seems that they've kept their word on that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm also a mod, and it broke for me.