> It's a no-brainer decision to try to kill it if it's hindering your ability to make more money
The no-brainer decision would be to make your app a lot better than any third-party app instead of pulling the rug from under people whose work has made reddit better in the long-run.
We get it, a lot of subreddits are going on strike to protest the API changes. I just wish this forum does not become the place-to-be to discuss how much reddit sucks. There's been at least 3-4 stories about the reddit API changes on the frontpage of hackernews for the past week at least.
Further, Reddit was arguably the progenitor of HN. My understanding is that HN was basically PG's project when Reddit ported from Lisp to Python to prove you could run that type of site in Lisp still (and also as the proto-community on reddit moved away from tech and startups to more general interest).
Talk about it, sure, but we've had multiple threads already about the site's new API policy, and at least one thread about subreddits boycotting. I think OPs point (which I generally agree with) is that we don't really need multiple threads discussing specific subreddits doing the same thing.
A single subreddit is functionally equivalent to HN. But HN has no provision for communities to form around niche topics. It’s just everyone in the same room talking about the same feed of stories.
It is probably easy if you know people there. Unfortunately I don’t and neither my German friends (already asked on German IRC etc). It’s hard to find a way into that community if don’t already know English speaking people who are in this niche.
In case anyone has an invite to give, I’d be happy to use it: hn@<nickname>.dev
I don't why you're getting downvoted you have an actual concern that has been a huge annoyance when using emacs/vim, however, Doom Emacs and to the same extent SpaceVim solve that issue. I'd highly recommend you check them out.
The no-brainer decision would be to make your app a lot better than any third-party app instead of pulling the rug from under people whose work has made reddit better in the long-run.