Why are 3rd party apps still working?

Joey for Reddit was my reddit client of choice for several years now. There never was any announcement from the dev regarding the future of Joey.

So there were speculations if he made a deal with reddit and would continue with a subscription tier.

Boost however officially announced they would shut down with the API changes coming.

I just checked and both apps are still going strong.

Shouldn’t they have stopped working on June 30th?

Amy idea what’s going on?

Litany,
Litany avatar

The Relay dev thinks they can make a subscription model work. Last I checked they still hadn't determined pricing, but they were hopeful that it would be about a 60/40 split for them/the API. I'm skeptical it will work out that way, I have a feeling most of it will just go to reddit.

But the app will continue to work for the next few weeks before the subscription kicks in while the dev works out the details.

Cal,
Cal avatar

Reddit fumbing their own policies and implementations? Never happened before.

Polydextrous,

I fuckin LOVE Joey. I went apple with my most recent phone and switched to Apollo (so, so good as well), but I still missed Joey. Joey rules

BuddyLong,

I very rarely see Joey mentioned. But it is by far my favorite reddit client.

kodaian,

Infinity on Android still works for me, though I don’t know for how long as I got a message about a week ago when opening the app saying it would switch to a paid subscription July 1st so I have no idea what is going on there.

70ms,

AlienBlue still works 😂 You can download it from your purchase history in the App store, you just can’t log in.

i.imgur.com/O3k6st7.jpg

Viper_NZ,

You can download its shambling corpse too. Just search for ‘Reddit’ on the App Store.

BitingChaos,
@BitingChaos@lemmy.world avatar

Narwhal for iOS is working as well as ever. However, the developer is apparently eating whatever the API cost is right now (if there even is any) and will push an app update soon that will require monthly payments to keep the app working.

mr_tyler_durden,

The developer is not eating the cost, Reddit gave them and a few other apps an extension. And also refused an extension for some apps.

Marble_turret,

Same for Boost. Hopefully it’s going to be a uturn on the api thing and they’re cooking up a positive way to spin it.

DaniloT,

I can’t say about all of them, but the RiF developer clarified it for the verge, taken from this link :

If RIF is still working for you when you’re logged out, here’s why.

“When users are logged out, the app is still working because it does not use the OAuth client credentials while logged out,” developer Andrew Shu tells The Verge in an email. However, he expects that the app will stop working in this way soon.

idiosynk,

I was curious about this too. I have reddit is fun for iOS and it is still chugging along NSFW content and all.

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