• Mersampa@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The Apollo dev comment on this. They have a subscription model already, but would need to more than double the cost just to meet the cost of the API.

    They worked it out as $2.50 per month for the average user. But I’d be willing to bet that you’d have less users using it more if it cost that much, so it would need to be higher. And then you add taxes. And even then it’s all going to reddit, the dev gets nothing.

    This is based on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I definitely saw that. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they’re expecting third party app devs to basically be charging what they do for Reddit premium, which is honestly pretty ridiculous. Most people aren’t going to want to suddenly have to pay anywhere near $6/month for what they had been getting for free. Reddit also screwed up by not having a way that their existing Reddit Premium users might continue having API access in third party apps with a personal token instead of making all third party app devs be brokers in the exchange. They’re making the system needlessly complicated IMHO.

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        1 year ago

        They could have drastically simplified the whole issue by decreeing that only premium Reddit accounts may use a third-party app. They get their money and people only mildly groan instead of getting outraged and abandoning ship.