No respect for the OG. RIP RiF.
I still have the app on my phone. After over a decade of use, I can’t bear to uninstall. Seeing it’s icon is like seeing a loved one’s ashes in my living room.
Posted using Sync for Lemmy
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.lemmy_sync
“Adulthood is when you find your favorite bread has disappeared from the grocery store.”
- Nanami from Jujutsu Kaisen (poorly translated)
As a German this scenario is both unrealistic and at the same time devastating
Personally I never used any 3rd party reddit clients because I avoid apps in general, and was really used to the old.reddit dating back to 2008 or so. However, I did give up on reddit finally based on the API issue, I had a successful API app based on another site years ago, and the way Splez acted was pretty much the same nonsense we were subjected to. We made something that the site members loved, and were able to eke out a decent living by developing and supporting it. We were always dealing with the site changing things, and the CEO had this attitude like we were interloper parasites making money from his property. We had the rug pulled out from under us multiple times with changes to the site, bugs, performance problems and unannounced feature cancellations. At the same time, their members told us our web app was the best, it enabled them to use the site and filled in huge gaps in the official offerings, and please don’t ever change it. So, to see Reddit act that way to API developers was unacceptable. Plus, Lemmy/kbin is way better.
I use them with Revanced. Sorry Lemmy, but you’re not even close to Reddit’s content quality. You’re improving though.
I love Lemmy. It’s just like reddit from when I joined in 2012. With Sync for Lemmy, it’s easy to use as well
I’m using sync revanced for Reddit, the problem is it’s only a matter of time before the API changes and the app stops working. Until then though I’ll use both sync for reddit and sync for lemmy side by side
I wasn’t aware of the fact that the API changes would affect the Revanced workaround. Also, haven’t the API changes already happened?
Yeah, Reddit hasn’t really changed the API itself with these recent changes, they just made the keys to it cost money.
An API is basically a communication standard between the app and Reddit, that standard changes as new features are added or decisions are made. The app might make a request like getvideo and expect to get a video with the .redditvid extension. Now let’s say Reddit decided to fix their shitty video player and now they start rolling out a new video format, .redditvidgood, and update the API so that getvideo returns this new type.
Now the app makes a getvideo request and gets a .redditvidgood video, but it has no idea how to handle this format, it’s still expecting the old .redditvid format. At best the app will fail to load these new videos but still function otherwise, at worst the app will crash any time it tries to load a video. In this example, even with the best case scenario most videos don’t work anymore. It’s only a matter of time before a change completely breaks all apps that don’t update for the current API, and only a dev with the source code can make those updates to the app.
