The Reddit API Wall Is Now a Developer Workflow Problem

The threads that define this shift are not from large-scale data scrapers or commercial apps. They are from individual developers whose projects were small enough that Reddit's access process was never designed to accommodate them. One developer building a personal iOS app for themselves and their partner reported reading that "people are getting rejected to get api access" and asked the community for the current process ^[2]. Another, building a mock Reddit client as a portfolio project for a Front-End Engineering course, used Reddit's publicly accessible JSON API rather than…