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I think a deadline forces people, us included, to negotiate that.

They didn't seem willing to do so, though. Multiple devs have commented on the lack of communication from Reddit, and they didn't seem to budge when discussing with Apollo/Selig.

It was never designed to support third-party apps

First-party apps didn't exist until they bought out Alien Blue, a third party client?

These statements seem like pretty obvious lies to anyone who's used Reddit for long enough. It makes me sad to see how their management dissolved into this, whatever this is. Sure, they've never been great, but these truly are new lows.

(I have deleted my 13-year-old account because of this, although I believe it won't impact metrics enough to have an effect. I just don't want to use a community-building site that doesn't care about its community.)

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