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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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I keep seeing the quote "the API wasn’t designed to support these clients" and it always makes me wonder... What exactly does he think an API is FOR? As far as I've ever seen, APIs are specifically for outside connectivity. If you're working with internal code then you simply make your own hooks as needed. Even an app could use hooks not available to the public. And if the API is NOT designed for this type of usage, then why would anyone want to PAY to use it? He keeps saying he wants to make reddit profitable, and yet he's telling the world that the API isn't fit for usage? None of it makes any sense.
Their website and application also use API, not always the same as the one used by third party apps, but usually API on default is used internally, which is why there's a distinction of Public API and Internal API
But still... they released a public API and then complained that the public is using it?