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3rd party app for Reddit, Boost, is still functioning well after July 1st (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by UnhappyCamper@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Some users wonder if the dev will be charged for having it still up, others argue Reddit can't charge him without having signed a contract. Everyone is confused as to why the API change hasn't made it inoperable.

Why is Boost still working?

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[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

When the API shut off early, Apollo dev u/iamthatis (@ChristianSelig@mastodon.social) revoked his token so I cannot see any of this; but I’m wondering if reddit isn’t pulling a silent reversal of this to stem the bleeding of users and content. There is a lot of useful stuff that has been deleted. The AMA staff resigning and all the stuff migrating to fedi. No matter how much f-u/spez tries to shout “This is fine”; the building is still burning all around him.

Bet they left turned access back on.

[–] Valdair@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought access would essentially be the same from the app's perspective, just the app builders would start getting MASSIVE bills in the mail? And they were shutting it down preemptively to avoid this.

[–] introvrt2themax@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

That was my understanding, also. I read that the first billing for devs would be sent on Aug 1, so developers who did not want to pay shut their apps down on June 30 so they wouldn't have even one bill for API use. However, it also sounds like Reddit shut off the API early from what Christian Selig said so they continued their petty games.

Obligatory fuck u/spez

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Reddit is supposed to block api access to anyone not in a contract with them. This is why all the apps stopped working early yesterday. Reddit had to turn access on to any app that is staying. That is why this is weird. Unless all these apps are in deals with Reddit.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Which is... worst of both worlds?

[–] blivet@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the API shut off early, Apollo dev u/iamthatis (@fhristianselig@mastodon.social) revoked his token so I cannot see any of this

Yeah, Reddit singled his app out to be cut off first. So petty.

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

All the other 3rd party apps shut down at the same time yesterday