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Many mods are paid? I think the situation is the opposite of what people believe is going on. Reddit just wants its biggest profiteers to start paying for what
by mproud 3y ago
Many mods are paid?
I think the situation is the opposite of what people believe is going on. Reddit just wants its biggest profiteers to start paying for what they’re taking.
The changes actually won’t hurt normal users at all. Users somehow don’t understand that this is not about them. The proposed changes are about limiting exploitstion from a handful of commercializing individuals.
Free access to the API is getting expanded, from 60 calls to 100 calls per minute. Developer resources will continue to be protected for non-commercial use. And bots and mod extensions are to remain unaffected.
But yeah, meanwhile regular users somehow think they need a call to action, even though nothing will change for them… except maybe the guy who runs Apollo will kill his app, but not because Reddit killed it. It’s because he doesn’t have the time to rewrite his code to be more efficient.
- sshine 3y ago> the guy who runs Apollo will kill his app, but not because Reddit killed it. It’s because he doesn’t have the time to rewrite his code to be more efficient. That’s not a fair summary of his position. If you read his testament, they really screwed him over, lied to him, and didn’t give him a realistic chance to turn any reasonable amount of his revenue to Reddit. Even if he could lower the average number of API calls per daily user, they’re not even in the same ballpark, expense-wise.
- matkoniecz 3y ago> he doesn’t have the time to rewrite his code to be more efficient. Reddit demands so much to make it impossible