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It's funny because I just recently created a tiny web app that I run off my own computer which allows me to aggregate the feeds of any subreddit I want along with posts from Lemmy and other Reddit-like forums. Because of this, this change won't really affect me. While I do occasionally use a third party Reddit app to surf Reddit, I mostly just use my web app and it doesn't use any Reddit APIs but just scrapes the website directly. Only thing is I've heard that they might be getting rid of old Reddit. I currently scrape from old Reddit rather than the new one because the old one has easier HTML objects to identify. Still, it shouldn't be too hard start scraping the new UI, if I have to.
you might want to get in contact with the folks at libreddit who are concerned anonymous endpoints will be closed - thus killing libreddit and teddit
interesting. It looks like libreddit at least would be squashed.
In that issue they're saying "hmm I wonder if this would apply to unauthenticated API requests".
It seems nonsensical to me that it wouldn't apply to unauthenticated API requests.
according to their matrix room teddit will meet the same fate
@Elara@lemmygrad.ml this may have implications for the TankieReplyBot.
TankieReplyBot doesn't run on Reddit, it's Lemmy only. This won't affect it.
Wouldn't the API changes for reddit cause some of the privacy frontends it links to (like libreddit and teddit) to no longer work though?
Oh, that's what you meant. Yeah, that could be an issue, but I imagine at least some hosts will pay for the API if it affects them, depending on how much it costs. Hopefully they can continue to work. If not, it might be time to do some web scraping and get around the API.