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Apollo et al. are still under threat
by ehPReth 3y ago
Apollo et al. are still under threat
- bmarquez 3y agoAlso, this article talks about a protest (which is new information, unlike previous HN submissions which only reported the changes.)
- paulcole 3y agoCan’t they just charge an amount sufficient to cover their costs plus whatever profit they want and find out if they have a viable business?
- anonred 3y agoThe devs could spend more time optimizing their apps to make fewer requests rather than coordinating a strike and running to the press.
- jyxent 3y agoIt is not entirely clear how they can change to make less requests, or if the Reddit employee even compared apps fairly. There is a floor count of API calls needed. The Apollo developer tested the official Reddit app, and it makes a similar amount of API calls: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_enterprise_level_tier_for_large_scale/jmnj9xc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...
- anonred 3y agoCaching requests for feeds and comments would probably work. Reddit already does this at the server level with a low TTL. Benchmarking Apollo against the official app is not that useful since we don’t know for certain what APIs they use.