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The craziest part of that to me is that they could have just charged the users directly without putting the onus for payment on the app developers.
You want your account to be able to use the data API? You have to subscribe to Reddit+. Once you do, that account can use any Oauth App it wants to access the site.
The fact that they put something as complicated as payment flow on third party developers is just obscene.
I think they have some sort of long-term goal that we're not considering, and that's why they're so desperate to kill competition and channel users into an ecosystem controlled by reddit.
In 3rd party apps they can't control things like ads and "experience".
Perhaps reddit+ IS coming and the main draw they're setting up will be "ad free browsing" and "premium UI elements".
Still a brainless way of doing things, but it's reddit we're talking about...