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Well, we need to save them to survive this year before worrying about next year, I think. Honestly, I'm not too sure. This is all very bad.
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Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need to Pay $20 Million Per Year Under New API Pricing
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Yeah, its overwhelming penchant for groupthink, appeal to authority and endless mental gymnastics/convolution/cognitive dissonance far outweigh its potential utility to any sensible, thinking person in the long haul. It can be decent for occasional informational grazing; that I am not denying. But its collectively-corrupted political sensibilities nearly always seem to stand in the way.
Reddit was really great years ago but it has devolved into toxicity and is horribly moderated these days. With a few exceptions, it is garbage. Though it seems like most large online communities end up that way. I look forward to its replacement.
Apollo is the only thing that makes Reddit useable to me. If I can’t have that, it will not be hard to just dispense with ever visiting Reddit again.
Depends on where on it you hang out. I'm positive there are some crappy subreddits there, but I don't visit them. A lot of the technical/maker subs are great. Probably the best place to find support for a number of hobbies that you'll find anywhere on the web.
Reddit is basically USENET 2.0 - the singular place for disparate communities to form without needing to reinvent the whole stack from the ground up (users/messaging/posting/retention/etc.) But now that NNTP is pretty much dead, this is what we're left with. Spaces controlled by a handful of corporations trying to turn profits.
Individual forums are ok for some things. But I can check in on a dozen subreddits through Apollo in seconds.
$20 million...per year. Basically no way to make it work unless he could reduce the number of requests the app makes by 100x, or increase the subscription cost 10x. Currently every paying user would be losing money.
From reddit's side, it makes sense as these users are basically freeloading as they get no ads, and limited telemetry data. But from a user perspective, Apollo is the only reason I use reddit, I despise using the web UI and the mobile app is only slightly better.
Horrible decision. It's pretty transparent that their plan was to make the pricing completely unreasonable so as to kill 3rd party apps and force us into their complete trash ad-app.
Seems to me the only (possible?) way forward would be to remove the free app and do the math on how many requests are made solely by paid users, and it would still likely require jacking up the price.
Seems to me the only (possible?) way forward would be to remove the free app and do the math on how many requests are made solely by paid users, and it would still likely require jacking up the price.
It's funny because I deleted the official Reddit app from my phone just a few days ago. My thought process was something along the lines of: "Wait...why did I install this crap I barely use again?" Like Tw*tter I'll just access through Safari if it comes to that, which likely it won't, because the platform is increasingly irrelevant, useless trash anyhow.
It makes me realize that many use Reddit differently than I do. I mostly use HardwareSwap, BuildAPCSales, stuff like that. It stays away from politics and serves a very useful purpose for me. I have been building a home theater and users there have been EXTREMELY helpful. I blocked all the big political subreddits, used Apollo to block any posts including Elon, Musk, Trump, etc. Reddit (IMO) is as good as the subreddits you follow. I rarely if ever look at /all or /popular and just stick to my niche interests and it's a pretty pleasant place. I get enough value from Apollo that I'd happily pay my $2.50/month.
End-user license agreement, sweetie. YOU are the product.
Hey all, if you have any questions about this feel free to ask (I'm the Apollo developer).
Been using MacRumors since before I could code so it's always cool to be on the site, wish it was under better circumstances.
Been using MacRumors since before I could code so it's always cool to be on the site, wish it was under better circumstances.
Reddit: We will always allow third-party apps to access our site.
Also Reddit: $20 mil per year pls kthx trollface.jpg
Also Reddit: $20 mil per year pls kthx trollface.jpg
Some communities do indeed serve utilitarian purposes rather than political agendas, true. Sad that the tumorous dynamics of rest of the platform have to drag down such gems.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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Just wanted to thank you for being transparent about this whole situation. Stay strong! ❤️
Oof - Reddit does seem to have accelerated things down that path.
But if someone can come up with $20M, there are much more worthy scenarios than Reddit. ❤️
Your app is great, and I happily subscribe to Ultra. Do you have a plan forward? I posted this a bit above, but I think the only remote possibility would be removing the free version, determining the cost of keeping it for paid users and figuring out the price. Thoughts?
Apollo is and will forever be iconic, right up there with AlienBlue. But methinks it's time you put your resources and talent into something that will hold your knack for Apple-tailored software in a more appreciative regard.
Here's to the future! I can't wait what to see what might be next for you.
It certainly seems that many social platforms do not want any third-party apps. It will be interesting to see if people migrate to other services.
This is the type of **** the EU should be getting involved with… but no.
Apollo is the only reason I use reddit. It has so many features that if absent, would make the platform unbearable.
If only companies like Reddit, Twitter, Netflix, and Warner-Discovery would realize that even if these decisions make them more money in the short term, forcing large portions of their most loyal customers to rage quit hurts their brand incredibly more in the long run and completely cripples growth and word-of-mouth.
If only companies like Reddit, Twitter, Netflix, and Warner-Discovery would realize that even if these decisions make them more money in the short term, forcing large portions of their most loyal customers to rage quit hurts their brand incredibly more in the long run and completely cripples growth and word-of-mouth.
After certain Reddit mods started banning people for saying they enjoyed Hogwarts Legacy I pretty much checked out of the platform. It’s become way too weird by being both exploitative as well as a series of purity-test echo chambers.