I don't see why that would affect it. Twitter IPO'd almost a decade ago and pre-Elon was moving in the direction of making their API better for developers, after the CEO said limiting the API had been a mistake.

Honestly, if developing this app over the years has taught me anything, third party app options are very healthy for the platform and harming them would only harm the platform and profits over time as folks who used them move away.

If it's merely a fear of "there's not Reddit ads in third party feeds" there's a million ways to handle that. One, integrate ads into the feed, or even just require a Reddit Premium sub to use third party apps. Both would be infinitely better than just closing the door on a relatively large number of users (I think after the whole Digg exodus that brought Reddit a lot of users, Reddit is keenly aware messing too much with how folks use a service will lead to many leaving rather than electing to adapt to the new thing).

Of course, I'll be fine (the support you folks have given me over the years I'm immeasurably grateful for), even if it results in working a less cool normal jobby job at an office where I can't always wear pyjamas and lie facedown on the floor when I can't solve something.

Gotta hope for the best but prepare for the worst, but I genuinely have got the impression that the folks at Reddit appreciate a developer platform.

It is an integral part of my problem solving routine and I don't know how people code in offices without being able to plank like it's 2009

Yes that would give me great disappointment. No matter your opinion of Elon, shutting down the Twitter API with zero notice, zero communication, and then blaming developers for breaking an unnamed rule was an absolutely shameful move.

Could be, if they deem it necessary

Twitter had a pretty great developer relations team (I even talked to them a few times since Apollo makes light use of the Twitter API for inline tweet previews that as I type this I'm now wondering if Elon will break) that was only getting better over time after they course-corrected, it was only after Elon came in that everything exploded, and I think the folks at Reddit are more level headed than that.

Same, hopefully this subreddit will turn into our retirement community one day

It's still up to the core company to operate intelligently (short of shortsighted groups buying up large groups of shares, which they could have negotiated to do privately during Reddit's pre-IPO stage anyway). Otherwise any public company like Apple would have been forced into doing dumb things (e.g. netbooks or an iPhone with a keyboard with Apple) when external pressure existed.

They've done things intelligently so far and I have no reason to believe the higher ups at Reddit will change. Steve in general has been there since day 1 so obviously understands Reddit very well down to a cultural level.

Yeah, I don't want to say anything too specific but the folks I talked to genuinely seemed very smart and very passionate about plans for the developer platform.