Thats fine, go free and make content in places where people aren’t. It’s working great for the 100s of dead youtube and twitch clones.
If you want to leave then leave. You’re entirely able to do that. The problem is that if you want to stay, you now can’t. I have no dog in this fight, I couldn’t care less, yet my mind has been made up for me against my will by people who probably also have no dog in this fight but think they’re doing the right thing
It’s a complete waste of time. I signed up just to complain about it. I program / integrate API’s for a living. There’s tonnes of websites that don’t have free api access. Reddit isn’t obligated to provide any API, and the fact it’s taking it away isn’t a good enough reason for all these mods to throw their toys out of the cot. Furthermore, it’s not the mods that will suffer for their decisions because they still have access to these private subreddits, it’s the users - most of whom have nothing to do with third party reddit apps or reddit apis and couldn’t care less.
Users who access reddit through a third party free API app make $0 for reddit. The big one being apollo, which likely would have been costing reddit a shit tonne in server fees and upkeep. So Reddit’s decision to change their API makes complete sense… Imagine if someone moved into your house, ate your food, paid no rent and then when you kicked them out people started protesting you for doing so. Whether users don’t visit reddit or they visit it through a third party app - the outcome for reddit is the same. $0 - great fuck all. That’s why these subreddits going private are going to do jack shit.
And to those users who think you care because you’ve been told you should (and because you love a good protest) ask yourself how this REALLY effects you. If you use a third party app, you’ll instead have to use a slightly different looking one. And BONUS you’ll be supporting the company that has actually made all those subreddits possible. I understand this is going to get downvoted to shit (if it can, idk how this stupid site works) because people THINK they care at the moment. But literally give it 2 weeks, everybody will realize the changes don’t mean shit to them personally, and they’ll stop giving a fuck.
My last complaint is just how shortsighted / selfish this is on the part of the people incharge here. Nobody is here for you. Nobody is here for your opinions on how reddit should run it’s business. Nobody gives 2 shits about how you feel the community should come together. We care about discussing shit with a large amount of actual war frame players, and then finding that information at a later date. And by doing this protest you’re removing both of those conditions, no large amount of players, no archive of knowledge. The next warframe subreddit that gains ANY traction is where 95% of players are going to go and you’ll be left here with some opinions that nobody cares about.
I win