I mean I know quite a few people have claimed they will no longer use Reddit, and I think I will probably phase it out as well.

I mean, as much as I love this community, Reddit isn’t always the healthiest thing for me anyway. This is a good excuse to stop using it. I think that the most I will use Reddit for is answering questions I have and for guides. There’s a lot of good information on this site. I can do that without being logged in, without interacting with posts, and with ad-block on, so I don’t see that as much of an issue.

For those of you wondering why some are reacting so negatively, I think rather than it being a problem with using the official app, it’s a reaction to being forced into a certain way of using Reddit that goes against what people like about it. Fucking up third party apps by hiking up API prices suddenly is just one facet of their new approach.

They want to transition to a social media-like site, with features to attract new users that don’t really follow what the existing users want.

They are negatively affecting people that devote their time to the site for basically nothing in return; the API changes affect moderator tools like bots as well.

The people running this have eroded their reputation even more than they had previously and seem even more incompetent than previously thought, answering AMAs with passive aggressive comments and attacking small developers. I dunno, to me it seems pretty fucked up, more so than other incidents in the past, so it seems reasonable to leave.