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3rd party app for Reddit, Boost, is still functioning well after July 1st (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by UnhappyCamper@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Some users wonder if the dev will be charged for having it still up, others argue Reddit can't charge him without having signed a contract. Everyone is confused as to why the API change hasn't made it inoperable.

Why is Boost still working?

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[–] UnhappyCamper@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't wait for the Lemmy Boost app. Wish kbin had an API so there'd be apps for it as well though.

[–] numbscroll@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@UnhappyCamper

@Jcb2016 Good news… at least two kbin apps are in the works. Follow @dansup for their Kbam app, and @hariette for their Artemis app. Artemis sounds like it’ll be heavily Apollo inspired, whereas Kbam is doing something a bit different.

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110644503485927580

[–] UnhappyCamper@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads up!

[–] Neato@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I swear I have a kbin app called /kbin that got advertised to me here. For Android.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yes. That's a PWA (Progressive Web App) - it is like a real app but functions inside a Web browser. It's pretty good.

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a fancy bookmark from wherever your browser is. I have the same "app" and so do people who use Firefox on iOS. What you're looking at is essentially the same thing as kbin on the mobile internet.

The apps in development will have other QoL features that will be more similar to Apollo (but I hope more similar to Infinity for Android).

[–] jiji@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Just an FYI, you don’t have to have Firefox on iOS to have the web app. It works with standard Safari as well.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

The API will come. It's still very early days for the kbin project. It's, uh, kind of alpha software.

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

They’re working on the kbin api stuff right now. It’sa priority. Also, check out Artemis magazine on kbin