Honestly I'm happy to go ballistic if they give reason to, but at this stage they haven't given enough information to warrant that. If the pricing is obtuse, sure, let's do it.

NSFW content is definitely ballistic-curious though, but I got clarification today that it only applies to sexually explicit material, not "normal" posts that are marked NSFW because of non-sexual reasons.

I asked for clarification around the explicit ones, and they said they will have more details soon. I'm hoping they're introducing more safeguards for the NSFW content (perhaps your Reddit account has to be age-verified first) that I pressed for developers to be able to implement as well.

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Great question, I would hope Reddit has folks smarter than myself working on that. Google for instance requires a drivers license or similar ID to be uploaded for certain age-restricted features, but perhaps answering if they know what a Tamagotchi is would suffice.

Honestly not really. If I wanted to downplay the situation I would have just not posted any details and kept them to myself. I honestly just wanted to be transparent, and I truly do think, if Reddit is able to stick the landing (yes, that's a big if), this could work out okay.

Oh not at all you're good, just wanted to clarify. I am firmly camped in the area between pessimistic and optimistic. Neutralmistic.

Yeah it's my understanding that the API won't return the posts if that setting is disabled.

I explained it in the post, but while some parts like you mentioned are definitely negative, what I think has the potential to be positive, is that if the prices are reasonable, this may cement a way forward for third party Reddit apps to live in Reddit's ecosystem, rather than kinda just being a question mark about what Reddit thinks about them which has kinda been the case the last few years.

For instance, Imgur's API is paid, I've paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to use it in Apollo over the years (it's several hundred dollars a month), but it's not the end of the world, because the amount of use you get for the price is reasonable, and it establishes a more solid relationship between the app and Imgur.

To be clear I got confirmation from Reddit today that the NSFW content stuff is referring solely to sexually explicit content, not the more run of the mill NSFW content on Reddit, like posts from r/wtf.

No I think Reddit has tagged NSFW subreddits by their content for several years now.

The outlined path sounds good if they provide reasonable pricing.

I'm imagining based on subreddit categorization. Vaginoplasties aren't sexually explicit or pornographic in nature so I would imagine those would be fine.

Sexually explicit content.

To be clear, I just got clarification from Reddit that the kinds of posts you just outlined will not be removed from the API.

I was saying if Reddit introduces additional safeguards for NSFW content that third party apps would also be included in this effort in some capacity rather than being excluded from everything obliquely.

To answer your last question I assume it's based on whether it's a NSFW sexual subreddit or not, which have been tagged pretty well over the last two years or so.

Okay means third party apps having a clear and defined path forward to exist within Reddit's ecosystem.

Which subreddit they're present in.