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If they wanted to work with third-party apps they could have charged reasonable rates for API access and could have offered a reasonable transition time. They g
by cardy31 3y ago
If they wanted to work with third-party apps they could have charged reasonable rates for API access and could have offered a reasonable transition time. They gave them one month to transition their whole business onto a new model to make the costs work. This was entirely bad-faith bargaining on Reddit’s part, and NPR should be ashamed for publishing Reddit’s press release for them.
- josephg 3y agoYep. They could also have kept the api free but insisted that 3rd party apps show ads. The developer of Apollo also agrees that would have been reasonable. But no.
- emodendroket 3y agoThey could have but this would have still represented giving up a lot of control over how ads are shown.
- josephg 3y agoNot necessarily. They could have added an extra requirement for accessing the api that Reddit must approve how ads are displayed.
- emodendroket 3y agoRight, but if they control the app they can make changes on the fly whenever. If they have 10 partner apps then everything will be glacially slow.
- josephg 3y agoIts not like the way ads are presented changes a lot. But I acknowledge the point. I think I wouldn't mind so much if their official app was anywhere near as good as Apollo.
- aaomidi 3y agoI don't ack their point. They'd get one warning and then they'd be kicked out and it would be justified.
- pessimizer 3y ago> should be ashamed for publishing Reddit’s press release for them. I have a sinking feeling I'm going to be seeing this phrase posted thousands of times.