I suspect as much too. Third party mobile clients dying saddens me for sure, but most of my usage is on old.reddit.com. When that inevitably goes away it'll be the true end for me. While I don't exactly look forward to the day, I'm oddly excited about the opportunity to put my time elsewhere. Maybe I'll finally start reading books again.
This. As it stands, third party clients are default dead due to Reddit’s decision. You can either accept the need to adapt or accept death. Is it easy? No! Is it necessary? Absolutely.
Given the pace and lifespans of current internet services I could bet a bit of money that this service, along with other similar ones, are more likely to be dead way before I will be.
It will, I can think of a ton of services I've used in the past that one day you just stop logging on. You don't even remember the last day of using them, just one day you stop. Then slowly everyone stops. (E.g., AOL, AIM, Geocities, IRC^, MySpace, and most recently Path & Instagram).
I assume the same will happen in my life for Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. One day I will just stop.
^I use IRC for dev stuff now, but there was a good 5 years where it was no longer a part of my life. I was a gamer who played CS in the early 2000s.
It won't die like myspace but it is long past it's peak. To me, dead means it is no longer a platform where advertising on it has good ROI. I can't imagine it being in the less than 10M in the US or 100M global daily use count in the next decade, even with a decline I think it can keep up much more addicts coming back to it.
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