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    First, many don’t appreciate the clutter from awards

    “Hide Awards” in settings?

    It’s almost like they’re allergic to working on their app.

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      They could have fixed the clutter and still accumulated money. They’re really bad at business

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        They could have fed ads through the API instead of shutting down clients. They aren’t very smart over there.

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          They could have required 3rd party apps to sell Reddit Coins and Avatar NFTs in order to use the API.

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      Not surprising considering what it is. I’ve seen people claim that the API is quite bad, to say it nicely. Can’t imagine the app’s code to be much better :)

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        They literally bought out one of the best apps, brought it in house, and actively made it the worst app. It’s almost amazing how consistent reddit’s management failures have been.

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        They developed a GraphQL version of the API like 5 years ago… then marked it as “internal”, obfuscated it, and didn’t let anyone access it. Except the official app.

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        So did sync. You could hide awards completely, display them all, or have it just show that the post had been awarded, but no detail on what the award was.

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        Keep bringing it up. It’s clear that Spez was annoyed and offended by Apollo and we shouldn’t let him drop the topic.

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          Apollo automatically refunded everyone for the money they had spent for a full year. Reddit isn’t doing anything at all. It says a lot.

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      I browse on old.reddit and used unlock to block .awardings-bar a long time ago. It’s amazing how much nicer it is not seeing all that junk.

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          I’ve now seen one person complain about it.

          I only used 3rd party apps to navigate, so it was never an issue.

          Sounds like R×ddit’s solution for a barking dog is to run it over with a steamroller.

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            People tend to not like ui clutter. It’s a universal sentiment outside of this discussion. NFT style monetization and clutter can get fucked. RIP to the garbage. Best move they’ve made in years.