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Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

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[–] Indie@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Exactly my scenario. They really fucked the chicken up with the move to charge for API access.

It's amazing how history always finds a way of repeating itself. The ignorance to not acknowledge what happened to digg, and what sent so many to deadit is laughable. I would be very interested to see what traffic looks like now to reddit, and how much of it is coming from their app, which I think they said they will start charging a monthly subscription fee for. That CEO should have the cheese touch after that debacle.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lmao a subscription to use the app

[–] kat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE APP???

What alternate reality are they living in?

[–] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

FFS. It doesn't even work half the time.

You'd think that knowing they were going to do this they'd have put some effort into making it work a bit better, but no.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Really a subscription for the basic tier app? That would be madness.

Of course it's madness now that they charge $50/year now for premium. It was paying the highest' tier of Apollo and it was $10/year and actually had features I wanted.