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A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
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It's the whole reason why I'm here today. The reddit app on android is dogshit and RIF is a much better product. I hope if they go this route then hopefully they end up like digg.
Apparently its planned for July 1st, unless there's enough public backlash. Reddit is I think the last US big-tech site with an open API, so I don't think they'll cave.
I mean I can understand charging for it but make it reasonable. In that Apollo post yesterday he said that he has a deal with imgur (which he says is similar to reddit in API requests) which charges him around $130 per 50 million requests whereas reddit wants $12k. It's an absurd amount of money to ask which convinces me they're doing it specifically to snuff out 3rd party apps forcing their users to use their terrible apps on iOS and Android. If so then I'm perfectly happy deleting my reddit account and using a site like this or something else to get my news/interests.
I'm kind of hoping they don't cave, so that more people move here.
I think they might cave. Think of it like a negotiation.
John: Hey, we make zero from third party reddit apps, we should charge them
Fred: Well, they produce a lot of content, which is what keeps people on the site
John: Hmm, we should charge them anyway. Keep the shareholders happy. $1,000 per 50 million requests.
Fred: But won't there be a big uproar?
John: Well, that will happen regardless of what we charge. If we think we can get away with charging $1000 per 50 million requests, let's announce $12,000 per 50 million. Then we can walk back to $1,000 and everyone will think we're being reasonable. If we started at $1,000 we'd probably have to walk it back to $100, and that's a waste of time.
Fred: You're brilliant, lock it in!
Yeah, that would be the "best case" scenario, but honestly I believe they are too daft too make a "good" compromise.
Pretty sure they will.
The older crowd who have been there for over a decade is sick of their bullshit. And the younger crowd will just move on to the next thing anyway.
Reddit thinks they are facebook now. lol, good luck with that.