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1k API calls is nothing, and I severely doubt it costs them 24 cents to provide 1k API calls. Besides, they're not charging "heavy app users". They're charging
by LocalH 3y ago
1k API calls is nothing, and I severely doubt it costs them 24 cents to provide 1k API calls.
Besides, they're not charging "heavy app users". They're charging "the apps". They are ensuring that the only entities that would even be able to afford their API costs are large businesses. As much money as Selig was making from Apollo, even he was unable to continue offering the app under these terms. Do you want increased capitalistic control of the Internet? Because this is one further step down that road, that I fear we may already be too far down.
- pmoriarty 3y ago"1k API calls is nothing, and I severely doubt it costs them 24 cents to provide 1k API calls." Whoever said anything about whether it cost Reddit 24 cents to provide 1k API calls? This subthread is about whether what Reddit is charging for API calls is "prohibitive", not about what it cost Reddit. "Besides, they're not charging "heavy app users". They're charging "the apps"." They're charging whoever uses Reddit's API keys, and I don't understand why third-party app users can't just use their own API keys and pay for their own API usage. "As much money as Selig was making from Apollo, even he was unable to continue offering the app under these terms." Why couldn't he just pass the costs down to the users of his app? Or just ask them to use their own API keys?