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forwardslash  ·  3714 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can Reddit Grow Up?

Yeah, I got that same sense from it, but I too am very familiar with the issue so perhaps we're just not its target audience.

The possibly interesting thing to me is this

    It also has plans to eventually release its own smartphone apps.

Reddit has a large ecosystem of third-party tools and apps built around it by users - from Reddit Enhancement Suite to a plethora of mobile apps - and has been fairly careful not to step too much on their toes. In the past companies have burned developers by breaking APIs and changing policies to suit the needs of the new first-party apps over the third-party apps which helped build their userbase.