Eugen RochkoI think it would be amusing if Reddit did implode over this. It'd be entirely self-inflicted... The site is only usable with third party apps.
Sharon Gibson Morgan@Gargron What third-party apps are being disabled at Reddit?
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦@SharonGibson3 @Gargron Any that don't want to pay ludicrous rates for API access, as I understand it.
James Harvey@SharonGibson3 @Gargron they want to charge outrageous prices for the API (Apollo would have to pay $20 million/year). Thousands of subreddits are going private, some permanently, in response.
Alan Miller 
🇺🇦@SharonGibson3 @Gargron technically they're not being disabled, but they were given a 30 day window to radically revise their businesses and applications (to move to a subscription model) and almost all of them have instead announced that they will cease to function on June 30.
@fencepost @Gargron I didn't know Reddit had 3d-party apps. Are the apps something that moderators and developers use?
Corey Norlander@SharonGibson3 @fencepost @Gargron For many years Reddit had no official app and when they created one it was missing hundreds of features and had a less intuitive UI than the apps individuals had created to fill the void and it still does. By consequence most people who joined Reddit any time before the last couple years all use unofficial apps and this was supported by Reddit up until now.
Sascha Bösch@SharonGibson3 @Gargron All, unless you charge your users exorbitant ammounts of money for usage.
Stephen Smith@SharonGibson3 @Gargron Not disabled but charged out of existence. And so far the ones which have confirmed they have to shut down due to not being able to afford the new API price includes Apollo, Redditisfun, Reddplanet and Sync as far as I know. I don't see an announcement from the app Boost but the dev says his situation is the same as Apollo. Baconreader hasn't announced anything, and Relay & Infinity are attempting to go subscription only.
antipode77@Stephen304 @SharonGibson3 @Gargron
@christianselig
This was about the developer of the Apollo app on apple for reddit.
He did a fast calculation and concluded reddit would require him to pay 20 million per year at the quoted pricing.
To add insult to injury the new pricing would be activated in 30 days. When he mailed questions about the issue, they answered him after a full week or a quarter of the 30 days.
Then they held an AMA, which did not really answer questions.
Ronald vd W.@Stephen304 @SharonGibson3 @Gargron I've used BaconReader for quite a while now and it does show ads; that might influence Reddit's decision to let it continue.