Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’ - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 3y

Was never designed for mobile either, hence why third party apps popped up

KillaBeez@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Bullshit. I’ve been using third party apps before the official one ever existed

axtualdave@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

The official app was a third party app until Reddit bought it.

Eric_Pollock@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Before I switched over here and this situation started getting big, I saw a post over on Reddit that explained how the "official" Reddit app was actually a third party app that they bought out...

RandomStickman@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Yup. They bought Alien Blue, swapped the logo colour to orange, made it the official logo and called it a day.

die444die@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This is not true. They also stripped out a shit ton of functionality.

Eric_Pollock@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

I was using Boost for Reddit, and I was always overwhelmed by the customization options. Absolutely loved it though.

CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Same talking points from the AMA. Nothing new here. He's just a mouth piece. The other interview with the Apollo dev was more interesting. The verge says more of the interview is coming but I can't see why they held back except that it probably doesn't have much either and they just want more clicks.

bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y

They really don't have a better mouth piece than this guy?

Sleuth@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y (1 reply)

No point in getting mad anymore. Dumb-dumb's already said he'll be profit driven until he gets money. This just proves it's at the expense of the users. Reddit's just going to get worse.

_noncomposmentis@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 3y

I swear to God if someone gave me reddit and said, "make this thing profitable," I really don't think it'd be as hard as he seems to think it is.

oranges@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 3y

Ha ha... Someone internally really needs to be like "dude, seriously shut up at this point you're just making it worse" .

There is nothing more amusing than someone with an enormouse ego making a complete cluster fuck of a situation.

xc2215x@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This guy will dig a deeper and deeper hole for himself it seems.

jherazob@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y

I think you mean Digg