Huffman also didn’t address the upcoming blackout from thousands of subreddits protesting the API changes. Notably, there were a number of topics Huffman didn't address, including why the company priced its API at a rate that developers say is prohibitively expensive. “Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable.” “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,” Huffman responded.

One of his most telling answers came in response to a question about the perception that “Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven and less focused on community engagement” than it has in the past. “We have to be strict / conservative about where it shows up.” “It’s a constant fight to keep this content at all,” he said. He also said that the reason why third-party apps would no longer be able to show sexually explicit content was due to a changing “regulatory environment” and legal concerns.

Both areas are often cited by Redditors who prefer third-party apps to the company’s native app. Huffman, who goes by spez on the platform, also promised that Reddit was working on improvements to its own app, including its moderation tools and accessibility features. I don’t know how we could do business with him.” (Huffman didn’t respond to a followup question from Selig asking for examples of such behavior.) “His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place-saying one thing to us while saying something completely different. “His ‘joke’ is the least of our issues,” he said. When asked about why the company accused Christian Selig, the developer of Apollo, of threatening the company - a claim Selig denied and promptly debunked with an audio clip of a phone call with a Reddit rep - Huffman doubled down on the criticism. “I feel completely powerless to do anything right now and I want to try and save the app I've been working on for the last 10 years.” Huffman apologized and said the company would respond.

“I have been trying to contact Reddit over the last 3 months and have been completely ignored,” one developer wrote. But other developers soon weighed in, noting that they had never heard back from the company, despite reaching out through the channels promoted by Reddit.

Reddit free malwarebytes key