I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit's official app without ads simply because it's going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark...

[–] Mersampa@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Apollo dev comment on this. They have a subscription model already, but would need to more than double the cost just to meet the cost of the API.

They worked it out as $2.50 per month for the average user. But I'd be willing to bet that you'd have less users using it more if it cost that much, so it would need to be higher. And then you add taxes. And even then it's all going to reddit, the dev gets nothing.

This is based on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I definitely saw that. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they're expecting third party app devs to basically be charging what they do for Reddit premium, which is honestly pretty ridiculous. Most people aren't going to want to suddenly have to pay anywhere near $6/month for what they had been getting for free. Reddit also screwed up by not having a way that their existing Reddit Premium users might continue having API access in third party apps with a personal token instead of making all third party app devs be brokers in the exchange. They're making the system needlessly complicated IMHO.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

They could have drastically simplified the whole issue by decreeing that only premium Reddit accounts may use a third-party app. They get their money and people only mildly groan instead of getting outraged and abandoning ship.

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