Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

Post by JoshGlazebrook » Wed, May 31, 2023, 10:17 PM UTC

SirMaster wrote: post #460

jamie_ca wrote: post #402

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Because they're also taking this opportunity to change rate limiting from client_id+user_id to just client_id. To stay inside the free tier, you get 1000 requests spread over 10 minutes (their current spike-smoothing behaviour) across your entire user base.

I'm not that great at APIs. Is client_id something you have to register with reddit? So you can't, for example have a client_id per user? What if you as the app maker forced all your users who want to use your app to go register for their free personal client_id for their own personal API use, and then you have them give that client_id to the app along with their OAuth with they log in? I am just trying to understand…

Post by witchesindublin » Wed, May 31, 2023, 10:18 PM UTC

benced wrote: post #88

infofarmer wrote: post #61

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

For the world? Yes it is. For the average HN user? Lol, no it’s not. I would wager the majority of HN users can point to several dumb >=$5 expenses in any given month. If you don’t value Apollo enough to pay for it, fine. Just don’t pretend that $60 a year is a morally outrageous amount for software.

Post by web3-is-a-scam » Wed, May 31, 2023, 10:18 PM UTC

Post by rhtgrg » Wed, May 31, 2023, 10:19 PM UTC

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #502

superfrank wrote: post #393

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> One can only hope there'll be a watershed moment like the one that killed Digg. I think a critical part of the Digg exodus was that most people already saw Reddit as a clear #2 in the space. When Digg fucked up, there was an obvious place for everyone to migrate to. I don't see that right now. Facebook isn't cool anymore, Twitter has a large number of people who won't use it because of Elon, Mastodon isn't mature e…

Discord seems the most likely, it matches the subreddit model and a lot of Reddit communities already have a discord. Obviously Discord is chat focused so not a one-to-one replacement but I am not sure that the younger generations will care. Plus there is the possibility of discord adding a Reddit/forum like feature, since they already have the mindshare.

Post by 9991 » Wed, May 31, 2023, 10:20 PM UTC

mdgrech23 wrote: post #503

Eji1700 wrote: post #418

Everyone saying their pricing is absurd had better get ready for the new wave of API pricing. Like every other industry, there's a growth period where things are new and prices are reasonable, and then there's the "squeeze" where bean counters come in, make charts that are likely bs, and explain how much easier it'd be if we charged 4x as much for half the customer base. Twitter was one of the first to give access to…

If you make more money it's hardly BS. There are supply and demand graphs and you can reasonably calculate how many customers you lose/gain from a price increase/decrease.