Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits
I don't have a lot of fondness for companies which offer a free product until it becomes entrenched, then take it away.  I think of how MS and Adobe both turned a blind eye toward piracy until everything else had been killed off, then they went hard on piracy.<p>That said, perhaps moderators and users should be willing to admit that Reddit produces some of the value here.  Every voice I've heard is, "we do all the work", "we produce all the value".  It's also comical to hear moderators say that when the users of their subreddit could make the same claim trumping the moderator.<p>Right now the mods seem to be flexing their muscle, showing that Reddit has allowed them too much power, rather than showing the actual need for an api.  In all of these discussions, I haven't seen a single video detailing side by side how necessary the third party apps are.  Just claims that <i>everyone</i> needs them and uses them.<p>Reddit, of course, seems hell bent on making their UI worse and worse.  I don't know what their play is or how they plan on getting paid for it.  I have to say, though, for a free product their ads are among the least intrusive I can think of.<p>Every subreddit is just a click away from moving, though.  I see some doing it.  But a lot of those subreddits enjoy the influx of users that reddit brings them (until they don't, of course).