I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn’t want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.
Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?
That was my initial suggestion and IMO the change wouldn’t be the PR nightmare that it currently is. It would have been a fair middle ground: you don’t make it financially devastating for the 3PA devs, the Premium users don’t get ads so that would be fair that 3PA don’t get shown ads through the API and Reddit gets financially compensated for it.
At this point I kinda lost faith in Reddit. I don’t expect them to honor whatever they say, so I won’t be subscribing anymore.