Reddit is one of the largest and most important websites on the planet. Especially since this is one of the last places humans can get their questions answered by real humans.. So it’s disappointing to see the company trying to kill so many of the best ways to actually experience it all.
I think the Reddit experience is fine for people using the site on desktop computers (“old reddit” is better) but with the phone everything changes. Reddit’s official app terrible, is full of intrusive ads. This means that many people rely on the functionality of third-party apps (such as the very popular Apollo on iOS and my favorite Infinity on Android) to read and comment. .
Or they did. These third-party apps only existed because Reddit allowed access to their API (backend in nature); today the site announced concrete changes to its arrangements (the first Announced to the public last month), the introduction of data charges—Twitter, similar to those introduced on other platforms using popular third-party appsThis is an astronomical amount and would push all third-party apps off the market.
The creators of Apollo did the math. and say:
Will begin the main subject. 50 million requests cost him $12,000. This is a much higher number than I expected.
Apollo made 7 billion requests last month. This equates to approximately $1.7 million per month, or $20 million per year. Even maintaining only subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day and costs $2.50 per month. That’s more than double his current subscription cost, so you’re in the red every month.
Meanwhile, one of the developers of another popular Android app, RIF, said: say Not only are they priced too (if Apollo can’t afford it, no one can), Reddit is also implementing changes that will prevent third-party apps from accessing the NSFW subreddit, but The official site is not.
Removal of sexually explicit content from third-party apps Keeping the content in the official app. Some have speculated that NSFW may be leaving Reddit altogether, so why did Reddit Inc exit recently? expanded Support for NSFW uploads on desktop sites?
it is clear High pricing far beyond what these developers expected or could ever pay isn’t there to make money. Not when it was clear that no one could pay for it. It is introduced to break third party alternatives and direct all mobile her users to the official app where they can watch ads or Paying for Reddit Premium.
Or just stop going to Reddit.