Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill for Apollo

Re:Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill... by faeriechangling on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:22AM (#36149712)

I have to think a fairly small slice of users are using 3rd party clients. I know almost nobody uses old.reddit.com anymore.

I don't see any of the moves Reddit is making as unsustainable, they just have a lock on their niche. Sure Apollo could clone Reddit, but why continue to use their app that that point when it would be better to switch to the official app which will see maybe 100x+ more usage?

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Re:Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill... by LikesPwsh on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:37AM (#36149813)

Reddit power users are overrepresented as users of third party clients and old.

They have an outsized influence as content sharers/creators rather than consumer, so annoying them is worse for reddit than it might appear.

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Re:Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill... by anonred on Thursday June 01, 2023 @08:39AM (#36150294)

Source? It’s plausible that most third party client users are power users, but certainly not the other way around.

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Re:Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill... by fortedoesnthack on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:31AM (#36149774)

I still use old.reddit. For my reddit usage it's perfectly fine and if anything finding things in the new UI results in a terrible experience for me.

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Re:Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill... by dham on Thursday June 01, 2023 @09:59AM (#36151105)

I still use old.reddit.com. Anytime I can opt out of "next gen" React interfaces I'm going to do it, so my M1 Pro processor doesn't melt.

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