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       So much for Reddit
       
       13 June, 2023
       
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       This post was translated from HTML, inevitably some things will have changed or no longer apply - July 2025
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       Reddit's going to start charging an exorbitant amount for the use of their API, which is killing off its third party clients like Apollo, the app I use to browse it. Lack of a third party client won't make the site unusable, but it will make it a whole lot less fun to use. Probably enough so for me that I won't be going there much any more.
       
       This again.
       
       I was never a very heavy poster, but I was a user for a long time, & for a while now had been appending the word reddit to Google searches to try & make the results returned less terrible. I did also write Ripley, which counted users on programming language subreddits, that crawled the site to start with but I rewrote it to use that same API. Ripley ran for a few years there & wouldn't be possible now.
       
       I don't feel the anger I felt about Twitter imploding, & who knows, Reddit may continue just fine after this, but I do feel disappointment -- "I'm not angry, just disappointed" -- disappointment that I seem to be witnessing the nihilism of a failing regime yet again. Après nous, le déluge.