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Re: Sync will shut down on June 30

#101

Post by axutio »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #100

Many moons ago, I distributed a mobile app that was effectively just a UI client into a SaaS API. The first step in the setup was to login to your account in a web browser, obtain an API key, and paste it into my app. This was the key used to authenticate and authorize all requests to the third party API. Why can't the same flow be used here? Just require users to obtain their own Reddit API key, and let the app be a…

Getting a Reddit API key seems to be a more complex process than the usual, with the first step being submitting a service ticket [0]. I imagine that this would also help Reddit prevent people from doing what you're suggesting, if it were to become popular.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api

Re: Sync will shut down on June 30

#102

Post by jjcm »

dicknuckle wrote: post #92
qingcharles wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Login needs an email address? (hackernews is rejected)

Same issue for me. Tried hackernews@non.io as well.

Yea my bad there - fwiw I added a hot patch to the frontend to accept hackernews as a valid "email" since I couldn't update the parent comment. It should work now, but j+hn@jjcm.org was the email used.

Re: Sync will shut down on June 30

#103

Post by fencepost »

graypegg wrote: post #24
dilap wrote: post #23

Rather than shut down, it would be a great time for all these clients to get together and decide on an official alternative site to reddit, and start supporting that. If they did it en-masse and in a coordinated fashion, it might be enough social momentum to achieve escape velocity on the new site.

What’s out there? I genuinely don’t know of any that would fit the Reddit data model.

The comments I've seen have included Lemmy (caveat: apparently some concerns about the devs, default instance and policies) or kbin both of which are ActivityPub capable.

Re: Sync will shut down on June 30

#104

Post by qingcharles »

jjcm wrote: post #91
qingcharles wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Login needs an email address? (hackernews is rejected)

Doh! You’d think I’d know my own login requirements. j+hn@jjcm.org is the email I used for that test account

Thank you. It's a nice UI. I know you've put a log of hours into this.

Re: Sync will shut down on June 30

#105

Post by qingcharles »

jjcm wrote: post #102
dicknuckle wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same issue for me. Tried hackernews@non.io as well.

Yea my bad there - fwiw I added a hot patch to the frontend to accept hackernews as a valid "email" since I couldn't update the parent comment. It should work now, but j+hn@jjcm.org was the email used.

Ah, the beautiful advantages of being a lone dev on a hobby project - live updates to the production code!

Re: Sync will shut down on June 30

#106

Post by jjcm »

qingcharles wrote: post #105
jjcm wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea my bad there - fwiw I added a hot patch to the frontend to accept hackernews as a valid "email" since I couldn't update the parent comment. It should work now, but j+hn@jjcm.org was the email used.

Ah, the beautiful advantages of being a lone dev on a hobby project - live updates to the production code!

And I only brought prod down for 15s or so when I missed a bracket in the production server frontend package I was editing in vim! I call that a success.

Re: Sync will shut down on June 30

#107

Post by andromeduck »

_proofs wrote: post #49
politelemon wrote: post #10

There are many clients for Reddit but this one is my favourite as it's fast and snappy. It introduced experimental gestures which were highly intuitive which I've not seen anywhere else. Excellent focus on content, I'm going to miss it. It's sad to see so many apps shutting down regardless of what Reddit decides to do post blackout. I suspect there's also an element of relief among these developers not having to spen…

i paid for sync moons ago and have used it exclusively to browse reddit, even going so far as to resign myself to android to use it (and also to use Materialistic) because of how much i favor the experience, configurability, and UX -- it is infinitely better than any app i have tried. admittedly i might be an outlier as i have no interest in browsing on desktop and very much prefer to reddit on mobile. this is a sad…

Same. Didn't ditch my Android until Apollo came out.

Re: Sync will shut down on June 30

#108

Post by mynameisvlad »

teruakohatu wrote: post #75
georgemcbay wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also a gamble to build your business on top of user created content and then piss off the users. I just used redact.dev to delete over 10 years of reddit comments and posts on my 125,904 karma account. Honestly just kind of done with mass market social media in general at this point, so it wasn't that hard to push me over the edge here.

This bookmarklet works very well with Chrome, is very easy to use and no need to install any applications: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite It relies on old.reddit.com, which everyone assumes will be gone not long after the API changes. So use it while you can.

Does it? In the readme it says:

> There is NO NEED to use never ending reddit to load as many comments / submissions. This script uses the actual Reddit API endpoints to edit and delete instead of automating clicks on delete and edit buttons. ahem, reddit overwrite

My plan was to run it on June 30th since it claimed to use the API. I guess since it’s in-browser it could still be using the API and masquerading as the website.

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