I think the writing is on the wall that the days of 3rd party reddit apps are numbered. I ran a moderately successful site from an API one time (Etsy) and we were always waiting for them to somehow screw us over. It happened here and there (sudden feature discontinuation, reliability problems) but they never 100% declared “you have to stop”, even when we were doing it before they had an official open API. But We knew they -could- do that at any time and it made it feel shakey. I think he’s right to quit now and cut his losses vs. keep working on it and become more dependent upon reddit.
I think the writing is on the wall that the days of 3rd party reddit apps are numbered. I ran a moderately successful site from an API one time (Etsy) and we were always waiting for them to somehow screw us over. It happened here and there (sudden feature discontinuation, reliability problems) but they never 100% declared “you have to stop”, even when we were doing it before they had an official open API. But We knew they -could- do that at any time and it made it feel shakey. I think he’s right to quit now and cut his losses vs. keep working on it and become more dependent upon reddit.