Seems that someone at Reddit decided to grant read access to RIF, this morning I opened the app just for kicks and it wouldn’t load anything. Well I tried again after lunch (Europe CET time) and it could access the front page but I was logged out. Trying to login shows a different logon page and even with valid credentials gives out a ‘Bad request’ response.
That means they are not just feeling the heat, they are probably burning really bad.
I can definitely browsee reddit with rif while logged out. Can’t imagine what this accomplishes for reddit.
Maybe they can still say " oh hey look our traffic/requests are high"? They lost some valuation late last week so they might be looking for any way to indicate that the number of people/ access requests aren’t dropping.
Read only use is hardly good though, that’s just coating them money. You want engagement from users to drive ads.
personal guess is that they’re trying to continue to tempt people over to the official app. given that rif has a lot of power users, they’re probably hoping that they’ll give in when they want to interact with content
or idk could just be a total bug
The argument was that API requests cost them money so we may as well hurt them financially a bit by continuing to browse on RiF. Spez can’t do anything right 😂
Not a good sign if we literally can’t tell if this is a galaxy brain strategy or a technical failure.
Yeah, noticed the same thing. Strange.