Reddit Will Start Charging Big Companies for API Access

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Yet somehow I knew in April. Weird. I must be special...or...people were carrying water for Reddit.

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Lol people have been moaning about reddit for the longest time, basically since they introduced the 'new' reddit

 

[Vorastra]

Lol people have been moaning about reddit for the longest time, basically since they introduced the 'new' reddit

Did people not know that old.reddit exists.

 

[backstreetboy]

Where will you go?

The old Reddit site is still working fine, for now...

https://join-lemmy.org/ will probably pick up steam. Here's hoping.

 

[Priapus]

Like some people have said in the Reddit threads, they assume Reddit will just lower the price and everything will be fine.

Well, according to Christian who spoke with them on the phone and asked this very question - their response is they're not negotiable and this is the price. We will have to see if they backtrack on that.

 

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Did people not know that old.reddit exists.

That will eventually go away as well, too bad

 

[Vorastra]

https://join-lemmy.org/ will probably pick up steam. Here's hoping.

Interesting. A fediverse aggregator.

 

[Vorastra]

Well, according to Christian who spoke with them on the phone and asked this very question - their response is they're not negotiable and this is the price. We will have to see if they backtrack on that.

You'd think they'd make an app that isn't dogsht before trying to force people onto it.

 

[Hamster]

TIL I'm the only guy who prefers the Reddit app over the third party ones.

 

[Priapus]

You'd think they'd make an app that isn't dogsht before trying to force people onto it.

Or at the very least, buy Apollo.

 

[Harold_Crick]

TIL there was anything but the official Reddit app.

I'll be fine.

 

[Vorastra]

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/144sn8r

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I was honestly both creeped out and disappointed at Reddit admins for trying to: 1) falsely insinuate Apollo was abusing the API 2) falsely claim Apollo was extorting them and 3) trying to go for "Apollo is programmed bad" as a desperation attempt to appeal to nerds to turn people to their side.

 

[Priapus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/144sn8r

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Apollo, along with RIF and a lot of other 3rd party apps are shutting down at the end of the month.

 

[Vorastra]

Apollo, along with RIF and a lot of other 3rd party apps are shutting down at the end of the month.

Yes, the spez AMA went well.

 

[Priapus]

Yes, the spez AMA went well.

That AMA is fire.

Also. **** Spez.

 

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That AMA is fire.

Also. **** Spez.

spez has been a huge POS for a long time: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments

**** /u/spez

 

[My_King]

Just identify as a small business

 

[Priapus]

Just identify as a small business

Not that simple. it’s all about how much you use their api and that determine how much you’ll have to pay. They’re charging $0.24 per 1000 requests.

For Apollo; that’s far too high. Based on requests per month, he is looking at a $20m bill per year.

 

[rietrot]

Who even uses the reddit API data. I cannot imagine any use case that would warrant plugging into that cesspool.

 

[PhireSide]

Not that simple. it’s all about how much you use their api and that determine how much you’ll have to pay. They’re charging $0.24 per 1000 requests.

For Apollo; that’s far too high. Based on requests per month, he is looking at a $20m bill per year.

Gonna miss Apollo.

/hugs Cumberbatch, my Pixel Pal

 

[Vorastra]

spez has been a huge POS for a long time: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments

**** /u/spez

I still remember some people saying it was OK because it was just dirty Trump supporters.