Web extensions are extremely limited by Apple. That is why we don’t have uBlock origin. A PWA alone would not get the job done. This isn’t talking to an API. You would have to parse out the HTML and reformat it, intercepting links, etc. View the source of new reddit and you will see what I mean.
You also can’t design around old reddit because they are killing that next.
It’s possible to write a web app that accesses Reddit APIs and loads comments and gives you an Apollo-style experience. You seem to be thinking of a web viewer app for the site, which isn’t the same as what I’m referring to. For example I’m using wefwef which is a good web app for mobile and desktop.
The reddit API is paid now. What do you think all the fuss is about? From the limited digging I have done, new reddit does not use an API (in the typical sense, it returns components to the client side with the content, so things are prerendered).
The Reddit API is free if below a certain threshold, and paid for a certain higher amount. Spez was trying to be misleading and claimed 90% of apps wouldn’t be affected but he was including every homebrew app etc. The fuss was that all popular apps would shut down, and low popularity apps negotiated a deal. Point is that a web app is still possible, using APIs until it hits the limits. You could try to scrape comments but that would get blocked by bot filters probably quickly.
Web extensions are extremely limited by Apple. That is why we don’t have uBlock origin. A PWA alone would not get the job done. This isn’t talking to an API. You would have to parse out the HTML and reformat it, intercepting links, etc. View the source of new reddit and you will see what I mean.
You also can’t design around old reddit because they are killing that next.
It’s possible to write a web app that accesses Reddit APIs and loads comments and gives you an Apollo-style experience. You seem to be thinking of a web viewer app for the site, which isn’t the same as what I’m referring to. For example I’m using wefwef which is a good web app for mobile and desktop.
The reddit API is paid now. What do you think all the fuss is about? From the limited digging I have done, new reddit does not use an API (in the typical sense, it returns components to the client side with the content, so things are prerendered).
The Reddit API is free if below a certain threshold, and paid for a certain higher amount. Spez was trying to be misleading and claimed 90% of apps wouldn’t be affected but he was including every homebrew app etc. The fuss was that all popular apps would shut down, and low popularity apps negotiated a deal. Point is that a web app is still possible, using APIs until it hits the limits. You could try to scrape comments but that would get blocked by bot filters probably quickly.