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Reddit kills awards and coins
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"Hide Awards" in settings?
It's almost like they're allergic to working on their app.
They could have fixed the clutter and still accumulated money. They’re really bad at business
They could have fed ads through the API instead of shutting down clients. They aren’t very smart over there.
They could have required 3rd party apps to sell Reddit Coins and Avatar NFTs in order to use the API.
Hate to beat the dead horse but Apollo had that
So did sync. You could hide awards completely, display them all, or have it just show that the post had been awarded, but no detail on what the award was.
Keep bringing it up. It’s clear that Spez was annoyed and offended by Apollo and we shouldn’t let him drop the topic.
Apollo automatically refunded everyone for the money they had spent for a full year. Reddit isn't doing anything at all. It says a lot.
Not surprising considering what it is. I've seen people claim that the API is quite bad, to say it nicely. Can't imagine the app's code to be much better :)
They literally bought out one of the best apps, brought it in house, and actively made it the worst app. It's almost amazing how consistent reddit's management failures have been.
They developed a GraphQL version of the API like 5 years ago... then marked it as "internal", obfuscated it, and didn't let anyone access it. Except the official app.
Reddit has recently become allergic to taking Ws as well.
Not disagreeing but I hated the stupid awards. It was one the things I hated most about the official app.
I browse on old.reddit and used unlock to block .awardings-bar a long time ago. It's amazing how much nicer it is not seeing all that junk.
I've never seen this be an issue for anyone.
I hated the clutter and many people mentioned it when they talked about 3rd party apps being killed.
I've now seen one person complain about it.
I only used 3rd party apps to navigate, so it was never an issue.
Sounds like R×ddit's solution for a barking dog is to run it over with a steamroller.
People tend to not like ui clutter. It’s a universal sentiment outside of this discussion. NFT style monetization and clutter can get fucked. RIP to the garbage. Best move they’ve made in years.
I mean, sure, but..
— gestures vaguely at the rest of the entire site —
I use a minimal UI 3rd party app that behaves and looks just like Apollo did. No clutter. It’s exactly how I like it.