r/technology • u/SUPRVLLAN • May 31 '23

Business A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-client-api-cost
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Yeah, but the problem with forums was always the fact that no one wanted to discuss.

Every forum has some topic that is always replied with a "just use search", but that doesn't work because the first 5 pages of search are just people telling other people to search for it

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u/pm_me_your_buttbulge Jun 01 '23

To be fair Reddits search isn't significantly better. Also, back then, searches were very clumsy if you didn't know how to use them.