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Let's say Apollo has 1 million users (I think the actual # is significantly higher). Reddit doesn't have a push API for notifications (like if someone messages
by Rebelgecko 3y ago
Let's say Apollo has 1 million users (I think the actual # is significantly higher). Reddit doesn't have a push API for notifications (like if someone messages you or replies to your comment), so you have to poll. Just checking those inboxes once per week gets you to 100 queries per minute. In reality, most people want inbox notifications more frequently than that.
And in the meantime, users are also upvoting posts, commenting, scrolling, and doing other things that cut into the API quota
- treesciencebot 3y agoAs far as I understand, its 100 qpm per oauth user. Each logged-in user will have 100 qpm, so they can actually query inbox once per minute and still be left with 99 queries for that minute alone. I thought the problem was that, if you exceed this limit even for some users (e.g. particularly active ones) then you are no longer eligible for the free-tier and get kicked out of the club and pay price even for the free tier.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoIt's 100 qpm per oauth client ID, which is tied to the developer's account in the API portal (at least that's how it worked when I used the API in the past). I suppose someone could make an app that lets users provide their own API keys, but most people aren't going to go through the hassle of setting up a dev account and generating API keys. That might also be a TOS violation?
- detaro 3y agoNo, it's not. It's 100 qpm per client id, i.e. app.