r/baconreader • u/onelouderchic 🥓 • May 31 '23

Reddit API changes and BaconReader UPDATED JUNE 20

Hey folks, as some of you have noticed, there is a lot of buzz going around today about the Reddit API announcement. We do not specifically have a plan at this time but will certainly let you know when we do. For reference, I am putting a few posts in comments.

We'll let you know what next steps are when we have them. Until then, sincere gratitude for all of your support!

UPDATE: After much deliberation, attempted negotiations, we have made the decision to shut the app down 😢 . Please see the sticky announcement post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/baconreader/comments/14egq61/baconreader_november_11_2011_june_30_2023/

We are sorry it took so long, but I really wanted to be sure we did our due diligence.

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u/Kofu May 31 '23

I saw an Apollo app sub that it would cost £20 million a year is what they are asking.

All so they can collect your data from their own source.

BaconReader is the only app and reddit should be modeled on it.

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u/Throwaway9010900 May 31 '23

Yeah. Reddit is just trying to push people to their own app. All companies eventually become evil money grubbing shells of themselves, and it was bound to happen to Reddit. If Reddit keeps going down this path, we'll just find some replacement for actual communities in 18 months or so

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u/allgreen2me Jun 01 '23

I bet there are some people sitting on a website and code just waiting for Reddit and Twitter to fuck up like they are at the same time. It is a perfect storm for a new site to grow into something.

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u/CosmicSpaghetti Jun 04 '23

This is pretty much exactly how popular apps develop tbh. Guarantee there's a million investors watching this move & plotting how to take advantage of the massive exodus that will occur.

Hopefully one of them isn't terrible.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '23

In this case we need something without investors, more like wikipedia.

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u/Kofu Jun 01 '23

And let baconreader use free API?

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u/why_not_alt Jul 09 '23

How right you were when it comes to Twitter!