Yes, and third party clients, specifically alternate web UIs are not available on Reddit.
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theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months agothis is a pretty reasonable answer
The topic specifically asks for features that are NOT availible for reddit.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 11 months ago
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
But they are …
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 11 months ago
Can you mention one then?
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
You literally only have to type “reddit frontend” into google, but I’ll help you out.
github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
github.com/…/shininggowl-reddit-clone-frontend
otter@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It was borderline, but I found it to still be true
People made their own frontends, which could then hosted officially by the instance with the resources to go with it.
That doesn’t happen with Reddit, where the alternative frontends are run separately and the usefulness varies
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Does reddit have user editable front ends you can host yourself?
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Yes.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Ooh cool.
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
Apparently a lot of stuff does. I know what I’m spending my weekend looking into.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 11 months ago
None of those work anymore after the API changes. Which is the entire point of my original comment.