What's going on with Reddit phone apps having to shut down?

what's going on with Reddit phone apps having to shut down I keep seeing people talking about how Reddit is forcing thirdparty apps to shut down due to API costs people keep saying they're all going to get shut down why is Reddit doing this is it actually sustainable are we going to lose everything but the official app what's going on link answer every time you interact in the app it uses the API to communicate with Reddit Reddit decided to charge for API access so the third-party devs will have to pay for you to use the app they're charging enough for this access to kill off the third party apps so instead of improving their own offical app reddit is instead driving the better apps out of business yay what a beautiful system answer another Point that's been overlooked in this thread is that Reddit is planning to go public sometime later this year and users of third-party apps don't see their ads which make its platform less valuable to advertisers they have gained a critical mass of users and are betting that driving users to the original app will drive more profit than is lost from users who swear by 3p apps like Apollo leaving the platform so dig.com full circle lived long enough to become the villain hauh so I might stop being a redditor neat I will use Reddit substantially less when they implement this reddits app is complete and utter garbage yeah if I can't use riff I just won't use Reddit on my phone and I'm only sticking around on my desktop as long as I can continue to opt out of the redesign and I bet that isn't long for this world either looks like this might be the end of Reddit for me oh well nothing lasts forever