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Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by ryanmercer »

pantulis wrote: post #9
andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Probably they should have found a way to require third party apps to display their ads.

The solution is only allowing 3rd party access to Reddit subscribers, to avoid the need to monetize through ads. If Reddit is asking 12000$ for 50M requests, then a regular Reddit user (344 reqs/day) would be paying around 2,5$/month, which seems more reasonable than putting the burden on the 3rd party developer.

>would be paying around 2,5$/month,

Which is less than I pay for premium. If more people would just, I dunno, pay for services they use regularly, Reddit wouldn't have a problem.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by taytus »

lawn wrote: post #17

I don't understand how a popular product like Reddit has so atrociously bad UI. The site itself is just garbage and the difference between the redesign and old.reddit is just so jarring, and the Android client is also garbage. Are there people who even thinks these designs are good? How do you even end up with something like this? Is it just garbage requirements thrown out by clueless managers? There must be some for…

"I don't understand how a popular product like Reddit has so atrociously bad UI"

Do you mean like... HN?

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by lawn »

taytus wrote: post #42
lawn wrote: post #17

I don't understand how a popular product like Reddit has so atrociously bad UI. The site itself is just garbage and the difference between the redesign and old.reddit is just so jarring, and the Android client is also garbage. Are there people who even thinks these designs are good? How do you even end up with something like this? Is it just garbage requirements thrown out by clueless managers? There must be some for…

"I don't understand how a popular product like Reddit has so atrociously bad UI" Do you mean like... HN?

Despite it's flaws, HN has a far superior user experience compared to Reddit. It's not even comparable.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by Semaphor »

fathyb wrote: post #37
bazmattaz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily past it’s expiration date. It’s ranked 6th most trafficked sites in the US. I do think that Reddit could do with a massive overhaul. If I was ceo tomorrow I would; - Install a bunch of new teams to focus on solving real problems for users - understand user pain points with the UX. why were people using third party apps? And fix the experience. Invest in better mobile apps - invest in s…

> understand user pain points with the UX. why were people using third party apps? Mostly ads, are you going to remove that? How are you going to explain the revenue loss to the board? > invest in some PR or similar to change peoples view of what Reddit is They already do that, maybe you'd like to increase the PR budget? It might be tricky with the ad revenue loss. > try to understand why users like Twitter how Reddi…

> Mostly ads

Mostly features.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by SirensOfTitan »

lyu07282 wrote: post #22
tremere wrote: post #8

Reddit is past its expiration date anyway and I'm surprised no one has created a challenger site. Perhaps this was due to Reddit's friendliness toward programmatic access but it seems they are taking that away. This is a good opportunity to create a new community, and essentially take back messaging from the corporations (let's be real about what reddit is) and put it back into the hands of the people.

I think the problem is really that we need platforms such as reddit on the internet, they are kind of part of its essential infrastructure. But running any infrastructure under the profit maximization scheme will always end up in self destruction. They are making enough money, they can easily go on keeping the API open, but there is no such thing as a sustainable business, they are forced to make more profit than the…

I don’t think you need to go full Reddit to replace it, just an interest in a niche and a desire to host a website.

The struggle is that it takes more than love of a subject to bootstrap a community. I could see someone broadly succeeding by building modern forum software alongside an optional discovery platform that links forums together. I know there are federated platforms out there, but I think a large portion of them have lost the thread of the user journey in attempts to meet the technical challenges of federation.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by retube »

lawn wrote: post #17

I don't understand how a popular product like Reddit has so atrociously bad UI. The site itself is just garbage and the difference between the redesign and old.reddit is just so jarring, and the Android client is also garbage. Are there people who even thinks these designs are good? How do you even end up with something like this? Is it just garbage requirements thrown out by clueless managers? There must be some for…

They recently killed the .compact view on mobile. The default is unreadable, i don't spend much time on the site anymore.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by AlexandrB »

madeofpalk wrote: post #16
andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Probably they should have found a way to require third party apps to display their ads.

This is basically lose/lose for everyone. API clients would be able to identify ads in the feed and just not show them. "High-profile" apps will be required to show them at risk of Reddit terminating their access, but the long tail will just ignore them. Reddit and advertisers won't get the same "audience measurement" analytics data, and third parties I imagine would be pretty reluctant to dump some privacy-invading…

> Reddit and advertisers won't get the same "audience measurement" analytics data

It's pretty crazy that a site like Reddit needs this to target ads effectively. You often have your interest groups already self-sorted thanks to subreddits.

Re: Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

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Post by 4ggr0 »

xvilka wrote: post #43

Despite my doubts about Mastodon being able to become popular Twitter alternative, I wish there was the same wave of migrating to the Fediverse-based open source Reddit alternative. So far I don't see them very popular.

Maybe we should all push to use Lemmy[0] :D

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)

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