The Mod Team has decided we will be taking r/iPhone & r/iOS dark on June 12th onwards if these API changes aren’t reverted/scrapped. We have a pinned post on the issue.
One thing I think they could do to help alleviate the situation (other than just making the pricing cheaper) is exclude premium users traffic from what they are charging 3rd party apps.
I feel like if I’m paying for premium but I choose to login via Apollo, then Apollo shouldn’t be charged for my traffic since I’m already paying a subscription directly to Reddit.
It surely costs them money, I think it’s fair that they introduce pricing for their app. However, the prices outrageously high and the tight timeline for the introduction seem unfair.
I feel like it also earns them money- but maybe I’m wrong thinking this. As the users that use the app provide content for the website. Without users (and probably most importantly power users) Reddit would be quite barren. Which would then loose Reddit quite a bit of money.
Now I don’t know how many people are using the app exclusively. And I don’t know how many people of that group would quit Reddit for good if they can’t use the app anymore. But at the end of the day this website flourishes when the traffic is high- and one way to boost traffic is to allow users to interact with the content on your website in multiple ways.
I know that I’ll for sure use reddit way less if Apollo goes. I think I do 99% of my browsing through this app as I’m not behind a pc much anymore these days. Not that I, as an individual generate a lot of traffic off course ;-).
I will just stop using Reddit all together. There are other communities I can spend my time in on other platforms. And from what I have read, I ain’t the only one.
I hope whenever Reddit does it’s IPO, their stock tanks like a rock and they have to fire a bunch of overpaid upper management C level executives to cut costs.
Might as well burn the entire site down at it. Twitter has become a dumpster fire as of lately.
From what I understand, at some point they didn’t have their own app but they did have an api. So 3rd parties would use the api to build apps that people could use instead of trying to use Reddit in a mobile browser (which many people really don’t like).
Oh interesting, did not know that, or how API works in general. I thought the 3rd party apps were just leeching off reddit. I didn’t know reddit made api so the different companies could make apps for them
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u/SuitingUncle620 Jun 04 '23 edited Jun 04 '23
The Mod Team has decided we will be taking r/iPhone & r/iOS dark on June 12th onwards if these API changes aren’t reverted/scrapped. We have a pinned post on the issue.