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Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by witchesindublin »

irusensei wrote: post #244
rickreynoldssf wrote: post #194

Reddit Permabanned me (13 year old 450k karma account) after I went after crypto scammers, calling out the scam with details etc. I got tons of coins or whatever gifted to me and even more thanks and way to go from users. Evidently reddit considered it harassment (of the plain as day scammers) and won't budge after an appeal. So, f reddit.

I’ve had an old account which I deleted since there was no easy way to clean up the post history. Created a new one and couldn’t do shit. Can’t post. No Karma. Account got closed due to “suspicious activity” a week later. Combine that with the obviously hostile user interface. It’s a terrible terrible website and nowadays I don’t really miss it that much.

deleting your account may not delete the posts.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by ekanes »

gaudat wrote: post #480

I have a story to tell, about the demise of one of the largest internet forums in my language. About ten years ago, when smartphones just started appearing, the forum did not have a mobile version, and there are various 3rd party clients on the App Store or Android Market. Later on, one of the largest 3rd party client was blocked, because of they hammering the forum's servers too hard,. Or something about caching and…

Apollo. Let's go.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by gnulinux »

Question, is there a reddit data archive we can legally download before this API pricing goes in effect? I really wouldn't wanna lose all the data in reddit when inevitable reddit becomes obscure unknown internet history. It has tons of (imho) extremely important information.

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Post by jccalhoun »

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…

I use Apollo and like it but I don't like it so much that using it is worth $5 a month

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Post by ed25519FUUU »

imiric wrote: post #669
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…

Good. It's about time for more people to move on to better platforms. Twitter is a cesspool, and Reddit has some good communities that will be better served from a platform that's not ruled by a greedy corporation that couldn't care less about its users.

Why is Twitter a cesspool? I interact mainly with WFH tech people who garden and I think it’s absolutely wonderful. There’s no reason to follow or interact with anyone who is negative.

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Post by [deleted] »

philistine wrote: post #580
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…

I don't disagree that it's one point of view, but I hardly believe both examples do not have a simpler explanation: both companies no longer want APIs for third-party clients. Elon wanted to turn it completely off and was probably convinced to ban the accounts of all the third-party clients and to try and harass the world's many weather services to pay 42,000$ a month. Reddit has one credible third-party client: Apol…

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Post by gsk22 »

miki123211 wrote: post #361

This feels like it's all priced for AI companies, TBH. This per-request pricing makes a LOT more sense if you assume that one particular piece of content will only be requested once in your company's history, saved on a server somewhere and used for training forever. You're not paying for a request being processed, you're not even paying to offset any advertising cost, you're essentially paying for the ability to use…

Would you use a client where the most popular threads are constantly out of date due to caching? I certainly wouldn't.

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Post by jccalhoun »

chrisan wrote: post #109
Aaronstotle wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, Facebook/Instagram show me really good ads, while Reddit-ads are always a complete miss.

I might have too much privacy stuff enabled but Facebook could not be further from what I am interested in. I'm pretty sure FB thinks I'm a republican country hunter with a big beard who loves driving his huge truck to crossfit. Because of where I live possibly?

I'll never forget a couple years ago when facebook showed me an add for asian american christians. If facebook doesn't know I'm not asian or christian then what does it know about me?

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Post by tamirzb »

jsnell wrote: post #114
fluidcruft wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As of July 1, 2023, we will enforce two different rate limits for the free access tier: > If you are using OAuth for authentication: 100 queries per minute per OAuth client id > If you are not using OAuth for authentication: 10 queries per minute So... doesn't this mean that each logged in Apollo/3rd party client user can make 100 requests per minute for free? The Apollo developer says his average user makes less t…

The client id is per-app, not per enduser.

Why not have each user register their own "client"? Is it that complicated?
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