Reddit was never meant to support third-party apps
Although Reddit has offered its API for free for years, it was never meant to support third-party apps like Apollo, RIF, and Sync. According to Huffman, these apps don’t add as much value to Reddit as they take.
“So the vast majority of the uses of the API—not [third-party apps like Apollo for Reddit]—the other 98 percent of them, make tools, bots, enhancements to Reddit. That’s what the API is for,” Huffman said, as reported by The Verge. “It was never designed to support third-party apps.”
