I’ve been a Relay devotee, but Sync is a great app too, and I’m really looking forward to 1-3 months from now when we’ll likely have a wide variety of apps to choose from.

It just prompts me to pause and consider how poorly Reddit managed to handle this situation. Rather than offer reasonable API terms, or even a normal timeline, which would have been a win-win-win scenario, they’ve:

• Motivated a large chunk of their userbase to join competing sites
• Driven their 3rd-party developers away, some of which will be creating apps for those competing sites, likely bringing their users with them
• Alienated their free labor force of moderators
• Abandoned their users who have accessibility issues
• Whipped up the rabble into a mob. The internet loves to grab a pitchfork, for the lolz as much as anything
• Spun up a monthlong parade of worst media coverage they’ve ever suffered across not just tech media, but all media. Which is really quite staggering accomplishment given their previous controversies.
• …in the year that they are aiming to IPO.