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> Apollo has 50,000 yearly subscribers, so is probably more on the negligible side overall. Note this figure does not include free users, nor the users of the
by internetter 3y ago
> Apollo has 50,000 yearly subscribers, so is probably more on the negligible side overall.
Note this figure does not include free users, nor the users of the plethora of other clients... But regardless
Clearly, Reddit has deemed 3rd party clients pose a huge cost to their platform, otherwise they wouldn't charge through the roof. IMO, all these numbers are meaningless given this fact.
- layer8 3y agoI’m not sure what Reddit’s rationale is here. Third-party app users are less than 1% (can’t find the link where I read this). The most plausible explanation is that they want to get rid of a potential future threat, because I don’t believe that current third-party usage constitutes any substantial loss. Otherwise buying out Apollo as mentioned in TFA should have been an easy decision.
- seviu 3y agoMaybe I am a little naive here but… Wouldn’t an ad support guideline be enough for third party apps to continue coexisting with the official Reddit app? Call it that, or sdk. But if ad based revenue is so important for Reddit, getting Apollo and the rest to properly display and track ads is imho a no brainer and would totally solve the issue at hand. As I said maybe I am too naive, and I only see part of the picture.
- kaba0 3y agoYou assume they act rationally. As mentioned in the post, the API costs are orders of magnitude more than the expected value from an average user.
- josephg 3y agoIn the post further down they discuss that. Reddit’s rationale is opportunity cost per user, not the price of serving the api.