Paul Haddad May 31, 2023

Reddit is totally pulling a Twitter.

I'd say a Reddit client is at least technically possible, unlike Twitter, but pricing would have to be around $10/month which really reduces the # of users that would be willing to pay to where it may just not be financially viable.
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is.

Hey all, I'll cut to the chase: 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever could have imagined. Apollo made 7 billion...

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Show threadPaul Haddad May 31, 2023
“The enterprise tier is a privilege that we will extend to select partners based on a number of factors, including value added to redditors and communities, and it will go into effect on July 1.”
Thank you sir, may I have another.
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_enterprise_level_tier_for_large_scale/
API Update: Enterprise Level Tier for Large Scale Applications

Posted in r/redditdev by u/FlyingLaserTurtle • 0 points and 30 comments

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Show threadPaul Haddad May 31, 2023
The thing that bothers me most about this Reddit stuff is the Gaslighting. If you are going to kill off all clients, just own it. Don't lie and say you value 3rd party clients and then act like they should be thankful for your over priced, unsustainable access plans.
Show threadPaul KrattMay 31, 2023

@paul I wish the Twitter and Reddit situations could mirror social networks 20 years ago and client makers would just be willing to play cat and mouse & mimic the official clients to waste their time. AOL eventually gave up and let 3rd party clients stay. It was nice having 1 client like Adium support everything.

In both situations here we have web apps that you can just wrap for their login tokens. I’d love to see Elon accidentally block TweetDeck.

Sadly, I know money makes that unlikely.

Show threadketchup71

@sappharad @paul With gated access to the customers (like Apples AppStore), it is technically possible to keep „rogue“ 3rd party clients off the devices. Which makes it a simple, already solved, legal problem. The best 3rd party devs can hope for is some legal loophole, which will be plugged eventually. So why bother? 🤷‍♂️

In short: There won’t be 3rd party apps, if Reddit decided to price them out, because it is technically impossible to get it to users. 😢

Jun 3, 2023 at 8:01amMona for iPhone
Show threadPaul KrattJun 3, 2023
@ketchup71 I wasn’t thinking about mobile, especially with Reddit, but I acknowledge that most people do not use computers anymore.