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fwiw it was two months to make changes (announced apr 18, apollo dev publicly confirmed impact by apr 19, changes effective jun 19) and another month for the fi

fwiw it was two months to make changes (announced apr 18, apollo dev publicly confirmed impact by apr 19, changes effective jun 19) and another month for the first bill to come in

joshstrange 3y ago
June 19th was when they announced pricing [0]. Announcing that you are planning to make changes without giving pricing is unactionable. June 30th was the shutdown. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
- replygirl 3y ago
  the exact pricing was not available on the apr 19 but it was clear it would be steep https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_few_calls_with_reddit_today_about_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe... how could someone be shocked that an api request to an ad supported service costs $0.00024? for comparison, twitter's new basic tier costs about $0.0016/request the only way this blows away your expectation is if your reference point is cloud services instead of consumer-facing platforms
Guvante 3y ago
Incorrect. Reddit announced a new pricing model without details on that date. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca... Can't figure out to get an exact date on mobile but Apr 19 is not "1 month ago". A June 1 post said "pricing details not announced" and the posts about this say June 30.
- replygirl 3y ago
  pretty much everyone _except_ the apollo dev knew what was gonna happen when this went up: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_few_calls_with_reddit_today_about_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
  - Guvante 3y ago
    Doom was claimed then and Reddit said "we aren't pulling a Twitter" and waited until the last minute to pull a Twitter. Costs matter a lot and not having any made the first post hard to understand.
Rebelgecko 3y ago
The announcement on April 18 didnt include a lot of pertinent details, like the new cost of the API

fwiw it was two months to make changes (announced apr 18, apollo dev publicly confirmed impact by apr 19, changes effective jun 19) and another month for the first bill to come in

joshstrange 3y ago

June 19th was when they announced pricing [0]. Announcing that you are planning to make changes without giving pricing is unactionable. June 30th was the shutdown. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

replygirl 3y ago
the exact pricing was not available on the apr 19 but it was clear it would be steep https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_few_calls_with_reddit_today_about_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe... how could someone be shocked that an api request to an ad supported service costs $0.00024? for comparison, twitter's new basic tier costs about $0.0016/request the only way this blows away your expectation is if your reference point is cloud services instead of consumer-facing platforms

Guvante 3y ago

Incorrect. Reddit announced a new pricing model without details on that date. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca... Can't figure out to get an exact date on mobile but Apr 19 is not "1 month ago". A June 1 post said "pricing details not announced" and the posts about this say June 30.

replygirl 3y ago
pretty much everyone _except_ the apollo dev knew what was gonna happen when this went up: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_few_calls_with_reddit_today_about_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
- Guvante 3y ago
  Doom was claimed then and Reddit said "we aren't pulling a Twitter" and waited until the last minute to pull a Twitter. Costs matter a lot and not having any made the first post hard to understand.

Rebelgecko 3y ago

The announcement on April 18 didnt include a lot of pertinent details, like the new cost of the API