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That's a poor assessment as you're expecting pro features for nothing. Their decision to include adverts does not make them deserving of this.
by politelemon 3y ago
That's a poor assessment as you're expecting pro features for nothing. Their decision to include adverts does not make them deserving of this.
- not_a_shill 3y agoAnd they shouldn't expect any public API even at a fair rate. No other platform does it at this point.
- aaomidi 3y agoAnd they’re not and they’re shutting down?
- not_a_shill 3y agoI agree & I'm glad we've come to a resolution
- flangola7 3y agousername does not match
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- not_a_shill 3y agoIt's irrelevant to the topic, but I actively dislike Reddit and would be happy for it to die. I use old school forums more than anything else online. Reddit killed those.
- june_twenty 3y agoNot only adverts - animated adverts. They are serving data from a free API and looking to piggy back off it. Not only is my assessment not "poor", it is too kind to the developers.
- fkyoureadthedoc 3y agoThis completely writes off the difficulty of and time required to build a great mobile app. If it was simple and easy Reddit would have just made their own instead of buying out an existing one.
- tredre3 3y agoI truly don't understand the narrative from the past few days. These third parties lived by serving their own ads instead of reddit's. They paid $0 to reddit yet made a very good living themselves (at least for the top ones like apollo and sync). And yet the narrative is now that they provided tremendous value to reddit by providing them with exposure (lol!) and that their users were creating most of reddit's content (which is most certainly false) and that reddit are monsters who duped them. Let's be real here. Those developers had a good run, they made a living of of reddit's content for a decade. Bravo. That was nice. But they all knew it was going to end one day ("Is it fair for Apollo to not pay reddit?" was a common question on the apollo sub, so even the USERS knew it wasn't a fully bidirectional relationship).
- Rhedox 3y agoThe problem isn't that they're expecting third party clients to pay for API usage. The problem is that their prices are completely outlandish and multiple orders of magnitude more than they would've made of the same users had they used the official app. On top of that, the transition period for third party apps to somehow implement a way to make these ridiculous sums of money is 30 days. That's just impossible.