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Comment on Ask HN: Pecedent for all Reddit 3rd party apps redirecting to a competitor?

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Sounds great, but these 3rd-party apps are designed to use the Reddit API, so I don't see how they could be made to quickly use any other service unless they just throw up a big banner saying "We can't use Reddit any more because they've closed their API to us, so we recommend you try out $service instead! Sorry, but this app isn't written for $service's API, so you'll just have to navigate there with your web browser."

It would probably take a fair amount of time to make new versions of these apps for a different service's API.

Developers could collaborate on some middleware/proxy that does the mapping

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