Do we at this point have any substantial data on just how many users Reddit actually lost due to this?

Any resources would be greatly appreciated.

As a sidenote, I’ll add that they certainly lost my account the second I couldn’t use RiF anymore.

  • LoafyLemon@kbin.social
    20·
    1 year ago

    It’s only been three days since the API change. Give it a month and we might have a bit of usable data, but for precise information, we’ll need to wait a few months or even up to a year.

    • FinnFooted@lemmy.world
      123·
      1 year ago

      It actually hasn’t. The api hasn’t been changed. Reddit is such a shit show they didn’t make their own deadline. Apps that didn’t take themselves down in advance still work.

      Theres still a wave to come I think.

      • FelipeFelop@feddit.uk
        121·
        1 year ago

        I’m not sure that’s correct as the developers of at least two apps reported that their API tokens were revoked early.

        • FinnFooted@lemmy.world
          51·
          1 year ago

          Weird. Several apps, such as infinity (plus others reporting ones that don’t plan to go subscription based are working still - boost, stealth, rif when logged out, and relay and someone said their bot was still chugging along), still work fine with no subscription. That, plus this post indicating that changes will over over the best few weeks, makes me feel like it’s not being revoked uniformly or smoothly.

          https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/14nbw6g/updated_rate_limits_going_into_effect_over_the/

          • FelipeFelop@feddit.uk
            4·
            1 year ago

            That’s talking about something different. In order to access the API the app needed a token which authorised the use. It’s those that were revoked and early.

            That post is talking about rate limiting for very small free apps.

            Some people have created patched versions of bigger apps which allows the user to insert their own to gain access. It’s unclear yet whether Reddit will allow this.

            • FinnFooted@lemmy.world
              31·
              1 year ago

              That’s fair, but people are experiencing no rate limits on certain apps and their bots are still working is what I am saying. As in, some api tokens have not been revoked. It hasn’t been done completely yet, only in a targeted way for some apps it seems. Though, I actually haven’t seen any developers say their api was revoked from them, only that they pulled out early as to not risk some weirdness with possible charges.

              The apps I am talking about working are not instances where users have inserted their own api tokens and do jot have api exceptions.

              Go over to the infinity subreddit. It’s just a ton of people asking why the app still works completely fine without a subscription or charged api update.

              So, I think my original point stands. Many apps and bots work just fine because the api keys have not been pulled and api rate limits haven’t been put in effect since reddit didn’t make their own deadline to uniformly manage either thing.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        1 year ago

        This is false. RIF clearly gets rate limited. Occasionally it will actually load the front page but every other time it throws 429 errors