Reddit API Pricing Controversy

Reddit designed this pricing change specifically to kill off 3rd party apps. If Apollo jumped through this hoop, there would be another in the future. There wouldn't be any winning this game.

Reddit wants to charge for it's API.Some users are annoyed as they are using 3rd party apps to help with moderation.They can protest by making subreddits private.But Reddit has been a clunky, ugly, painful user experience for many years and has succeeded despite that, so I guess Reddit will win.

a few options for Reddit: 1/ just buy Apollo. show ads 2/ do a special deal with Apollo where they somehow incorporate ads into the app 3/ API access with Reddit Premium. Apollo can now carry on as normal for premium users & charges "free" users 4/ learn to build a freaking app - people didn't end up using Apollo because of the high quality of the Reddit mobile app.Personally I rarely use Reddit in a browser and if 3rd party apps were to go away that

Mostly because reddit users are migrating away due to the API changes planned at the end of the month.Apollo is one of the most popular iOS apps for using Reddit. It will no longer be useable by the end of the month due to API changes Reddit is making. Reddit wants to charge for API usage and it will cost the developer of Apollo millions of dollars for something he until now had free access to.Reddit refuses to give users an option to subscribe to their own API keys, so Apollo has no choic

It's so weird that this revenue generating app is the poster child for Reddit admins abusing third parties or whatever. They literally made money for years, almost completely unbothered by Reddit inc, with their own ads and subscription model. I just don't get it, this is not some open source app getting mauled by a corporate behemoth. Apollo probably made more profit from Reddit than Reddit itself.And yes I know, Reddit could have rolled their own ads in the API but... Literally no

For years, Reddit has given 3rd parties access to their APIs. Two uses of said APIs that are relevant to what’s going on are third-party mobile apps like Apollo (which has built a large user base) and tools that help mods moderate their subreddits. Reddit recently announced they will be charging very high fees for access starting July 1st.The fees are so high that the developer behind Apollo said his bill would be $20M per month. As a result he announced he’d be shutting down the app. Many us

This. I think I would actually give up on reddit without apollo, the official app and website are user-hostile. I wonder if they will tighten the API up and eventually kill third-party clients.

Reddit encouraged building on their API for over a decade. Reddit told Christian in January that there would be no big changes to the API this year if not for multiple years. Reddit told developers it had no plans to charge for it's API.To call it a "free lunch" is pretty disrespectful IMHO, Christian worked hard on Apollo and it blows away the official app. Reddit benefits from 3rd party apps. Period. They don't want to admit that and they might not benefit as much as fro

What is Reddit’s plan? They seem to simultaneously hold two conflicting ideas:1. Third party app users represent significant enough lost revenue to make it worth making the API prohibitively expensive for third party apps to run, forcing those users back to the official app.2. Third party apps users are few enough that Reddit can afford to not compromise and lose those users just to kill off third party apps.Are they expecting the third party app users will come crawling back to the off

Reddit recently announced changes to their APIs pricing and features that will probably lead to the abandonment of most third-party Reddit clients. Users of those clients are upset.https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...