okcool@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social · 1 year agoReddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgreddit@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1212arrow-down1external-linkReddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”www.theverge.comokcool@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social · 1 year agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgreddit@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@beehaw.org
minus-squareMane25@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago3rd party apps came before the official app - in fact didn’t the official app start out as a 3rd-party app before it was acquired by Reddit?
minus-squaredanielton@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYup, they bought it just to scrap it and write whatever the hell the current app is.
minus-squareVulcanSphere@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoYup, Alien Blue was acquired by the Snoo Platform, Inc. and swiftly killed. But, hey they shifted the hue of the AB logo from blue to orange and yet the official app is a dogshit compared to the AB. Style and substance only, not proper function.
3rd party apps came before the official app - in fact didn’t the official app start out as a 3rd-party app before it was acquired by Reddit?
Yup, they bought it just to scrap it and write whatever the hell the current app is.
Yup, Alien Blue was acquired by the Snoo Platform, Inc. and swiftly killed.
But, hey they shifted the hue of the AB logo from blue to orange and yet the official app is a dogshit compared to the AB.
Style and substance only, not proper function.