Apparently Reddit has a bot problem, not the bots posting and replying but the ones scraping so Reddit is a little bit usable. When Reddit blocked API access 3 years ago I built and launched https://rdx.overdevs.com/ a read-only, open source Reddit website and app.
I have been bombarded with comments and mails asking why it is not working now, and the reason is this. Reddit has blocked JSON endpoint to access whatever limited data it allowed to acceess and is thinking of blocking RSS feeds.
Reddit announcement - https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1tq9vxo/protecting_communities_from_scrapers_and_platform/
RDX was my go-to for mobile reddit browsing for a while. Sad to see the news. Stealth is another similar app that allows web scraping but despite its nice UI isn’t as useful as RDX. And even web scraping is still giving issues. Womp womp. I guess I’ll be seeing reddit content even less now.
Thanks for using rdx mate. I am trying to find a way around this.
I swapped to red reader if I have to go there for a project search
UI is shit, and I use it way less than I used to because of that so win-win