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Ironically, old.reddit.com appears to be (partially) working right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiv... https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiv...
Not for me.
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If the numbers shared for the API costs is what it takes to be profitable, then it’s not a site that will be profitable and Reddit will go under.
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Everyone knows what profit motive is, cost of doing business, etc. Assume you're talking to people who know what it takes to run a website, and start, first, with the numbers that have been calculated.
According to apollo app, to keep their 3rd party app running, reddit was requesting about $20 million dollars. If you go look at what apollo charges, it's significantly less than that.
Reddit's defense of that charge isnt: Apollo is taking our users, our ad revenue and we want that to be in-house, in our own app, etc. They're saying "this is the cost of the API".
Now, start there, and dial in your criticism to some actual details.
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They're charging 3rd party apps 20x what reddit itself can make from a user. The goal is to kill the ecosystem and bring it back into the fold.
They even admitted as much when they said that they started thinking about this seriously when LLMs trained on reddit came out.
If they wanted to make reddit profitable they would charge 3rd party apps what they themselves make from users, and float that rate. Like that 3rd party apps cost nothing, even save them money in engineering.
Think about it this way: people are begging to do massive amounts of free work for reddit and their response is to banish all of those people.
This has nothing to do with profits from 3rd party apps.
It's difficult to know if this is a coordinated attack or a side effect of the ongoing protest.
HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: application/json Access-Control-Expose-Headers: retry-after, x-sentry-rate-limits, x-sentry-error Vary: Origin Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:49:00 GMT Content-Length: 45 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://www.reddit.com retry-after: 14 x-sentry-rate-limits: 14:default;error;security;attachment:organization:error_usage_exceeded
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I'll be pissed if outlook goes down again
As someone not responsible for Outlook, the last time we had Outlook/AD outage ... the sense of calm that I experienced knowing that no one is able to send me any emails even if just for an hour ... cannot be explained in mere words :)
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Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.
Does it? I usually use Reddit on my lunch about this time every day and I can't remember the last time it was down.
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I don't think many people begrudge them to implementing a paid API to recoup the costs of third-party clients.
But they've set the price way too high, with practically no warning, defamed an app developer and then went "lalalala we can't hear you" when people, rightly, pushed back.
All while using dark patterns to push users to their (objectively awful) official web and mobile apps. Power users (especially mods) just can't use these to do what they need to do, Reddit doesn't care and now Reddit is - effectively - killing off 3rd party apps.