Seems that someone at Reddit decided to grant read access to RIF, this morning I opened the app just for kicks and it wouldn’t load anything. Well I tried again after lunch (Europe CET time) and it could access the front page but I was logged out. Trying to login shows a different logon page and even with valid credentials gives out a ‘Bad request’ response.

That means they are not just feeling the heat, they are probably burning really bad.

  • rDrDr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can definitely browsee reddit with rif while logged out. Can’t imagine what this accomplishes for reddit.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe they can still say " oh hey look our traffic/requests are high"? They lost some valuation late last week so they might be looking for any way to indicate that the number of people/ access requests aren’t dropping.

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        1 year ago

        Read only use is hardly good though, that’s just coating them money. You want engagement from users to drive ads.

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      1 year ago

      personal guess is that they’re trying to continue to tempt people over to the official app. given that rif has a lot of power users, they’re probably hoping that they’ll give in when they want to interact with content

      or idk could just be a total bug

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      1 year ago

      The argument was that API requests cost them money so we may as well hurt them financially a bit by continuing to browse on RiF. Spez can’t do anything right 😂

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        1 year ago

        Not a good sign if we literally can’t tell if this is a galaxy brain strategy or a technical failure.