tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.

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    1 year ago

    These new ideas are exactly why they had to kill 3rd party apps. If they hadn’t, this sort of change would just push more people to adopt them.

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      They could try making a good app that people actually want to use. They seemed to give up on that the second they touched the Alien Blue source code.

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        1 year ago

        But that’s so much harder to do than simply taking away the options. Surely that’ll make them like Reddit more, right?

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      They could try making a good app that people actually want to use. They seemed to give up on that the second they touched the Alien Blue source code.