One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it
One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it
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One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it
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This won't work out. Reddit is hostile to any third party app and will screw this dev over hard at any and every chance.
To the dev: Bail while you can dude.
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Yea, I think this app developer is misreading what Reddit is really trying to accomplish . They weren’t trying to monetize third party apps, they were just trying to get rid of them.
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Good luck to them
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Agreed, haven't really looked back since coming over to Lemmy
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I’m in love with Lemmy. It feels like Reddit did when Reddit was fun and you weren’t a speck in the crowd. Same for Mastodon and the early days of Twitter.
Currently weighing whether or not I want to pay for a lifetime subscription to the app I’m using on iOS. These guys can still find ways to make money, but I think relying solely on Reddit and trusting them not to further jack up the prices is a risky move.
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Relay for Reddit Pro was my client of choice. Paying a subscription fee to a third party just seems ridiculous. I would have instead loved to have Relemmy by DBrady.
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I miss Apollo, but not Reddit. If Christian (Apollo dev) released a Lemmy app, I’d download it in a second. Paid for it on reddit and would on Lemmy too.
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I’m sure you already heard of it, but obligatory Voyager shout-out since it’s pretty damn close
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Wefwef is basically Apollo for lemmy imo.
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I use Voyager strictly because of how similar it is to Apollo!
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I did and would too, for sure!
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“That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ‘em”
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The costs of a subscription will go up based on a user’s daily average number of API calls, essentially meaning that the more things a person does in the app, the more they might have to pay.
Here is the full list, from developer DBrady’s post, which appears to include Google’s take of the subscription and Relay’s expected revenues:
In the newest release of Relay, DBrady says they also added the ability for users to see their average daily API calls.
The plan is for a subscription to roll out in two or three weeks from the time of their post and they expect to charge a monthly cost of $3 or $4.
“This won’t cover the cost of ‘super users’ who use the app all day, but, on average, it should allow me to pay the Reddit API bill,” the developer said.
Many subreddits and users protested against the switch to the paid API in-party because of its effect on the third-party app ecosystem.
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Problem is they even with paying the third party app gets an inferior experience (no polls, nothing marked NSFW).