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Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by infofarmer »

jdminhbg wrote: post #31

> Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs, so I'd be in the red every month. I just don't understand why developers underprice their apps so much. You're talking about an app that people are constantly raving about, and that people use for multiple hours per day. Charge $5/mo…

You also don't understand how 95% of the world or 80% of HN lives. $5/month is a very significant expense.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by TwoNineA »

local_crmdgeon wrote: post #39
sosodev wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such an absurd statement. I have to assume that you're trolling.

Have you used Reddit or Twitter recently? They're basically open air insane asylums. You should spend 0% of your life talking about being a "Based Alpha Male." You absolutely should not use the same website as a "Based Alpha Male" influencer. I can come up with left wing equivalents if you're more into that?

I don't see any of that crap you are talking about on my feed. I am subscribed to tech, news, soccer, some linux subreddits, a few game subreddits like Dyson Sphere Program, Diablo and finally programmer memes. I browse "home", ignore "all" or "popular". It's a really nice tool that is being destroyed by incompetence.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by saagarjha »

Not to go all “I told you so” but I do recall Christian talking about how Reddit would never do anything like this and how much trust he had in their developer relations team now, oh, sometime earlier this year. Hope he took the suggestion to have a backup plan seriously…relying on the whims of a single company is a hard way to make your income. Doesn’t mean you can’t try it but it is fundamentally pretty risky.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by cheshire137 »

Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 wrote: post #13

Their pricing is just absurd. Reddit's official app and webpage is garbage, and instead of working with amazing developers like Christian to add whatever functionality they need to increase their revenue, they're doubling down on bad decisions and alienating their users. Pure hubris... they've forgotten their own history and why the Digg exodus happened. Seriously, _what_ are they gaining by eliminating access to thi…

What I don’t get is they acquired Alien Blue, which was an amazing app, yet the official Reddit app is nowhere near the quality that AB had years ago.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by nightpool »

$2.50 / month / user does not seem that insane when it's put into that sort of perspective, but certainly more than I think most of the current users of the app would be happy paying. Hopefully they can compromise somewhere around $5 / user / year which I think most users would happily pay for for a third party app.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by cool_dude85 »

jdminhbg wrote: post #31

> Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs, so I'd be in the red every month. I just don't understand why developers underprice their apps so much. You're talking about an app that people are constantly raving about, and that people use for multiple hours per day. Charge $5/mo…

What percent of the app's current customer base do you think would stick around at paying $5 a month to browse r/funny on the phone?

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by rootusrootus »

ccooffee wrote: post #44
robbiet480 wrote: post #17

Reddit has posted their own announcements now https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda... and https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...

> Finally, to ensure that all regulatory requirements are met in the handling of mature content, we will be limiting access to sexually explicit content for third-party apps starting on July 5, 2023, except for moderation needs. Reddit really buried "no nsfw outside official reddit apps" (from the end of your first link). Didn't Tumblr do something similar and lose a significant fraction of its userbase and revenues?

I can only assume Reddit wants to kill NSFW altogether. They require you to authenticate now if you want to see any of it (though of course they promise that somehow this will still be "anonymous"). Once they turn off old.reddit.com, I think that'll be the end of NSFW content on Reddit altogether.

I assume they hope to attract more advertising money this way.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by sosodev »

rootusrootus wrote: post #46
sosodev wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such an absurd statement. I have to assume that you're trolling.

Having spent too much time on Reddit recently, I'm not entirely sure. The comment is hyperbolic, to be sure, but on the other hand the most popular subreddits have gone largely insane. Quite noticeably in the last year. Every subreddit now has a political ideological stance, and some quite overtly threaten your access if you don't toe the line.

I don't think this is a Reddit problem. All social media platforms have increasingly large groups of crazy people. However, I highly suspect that those groups are just a very vocal minority and not hundreds of millions of people as the OP said.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by RhodesianHunter »

martin8412 wrote: post #47
RhodesianHunter wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit has seemed rudderless for a long time. Their ads platform is damned near useless compared to their competitors. It's a wonder they have any revenue at all. Their moderation is wildly broken, frequently leading to blanket account bans of anyone participating in a thread close to content deemed inappropriate.

A lot of subreddits blanket ban you if you've posted in other subreddits that the mods don't like.

Reddit Admin itself will blanket ban accounts in entire sub-threads with no recourse or explanation.

Participate in a well informed debate on monetary policy, but some idiot downthread went on an anti-semitic rant?

Your account will be banned. Your ip address will be blocked from creating additional accounts. You will receive a link in a message to the message you wrote for which you were banned, but since it was deleted it will be a worthless link. You will receive a link to a form to appeal your ban, which goes straight to dev/null.

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