I personally woudn't mind not having moderators, as the ones we have at the moment are really bad and have pushed their political views in apparently impartial subs (like /r/politics).
I mean, why not create your own subreddit then? All you have to do is create it with a small group of people to see it, post good articles, and keep a 24/7 watch to kill the comment and post spam going to viagra and obvious trash.
I mean, why not create your own subreddit then? All you have to do is create it with a small group of people to see it, post good articles, and keep a 24/7 watch to kill the comment and post spam going to viagra and obvious trash.
Because any good ones get banned by reddit? Is this an actual question?
sounds like reddit want to kill all third party apps which is a bit unfortunate but this business practice is not very uncommon (Apple/Google with their 30% fees).
I'm not sure how Apple/Google 30% relates? Those companies do a lot to support businesses on their platform. If you don't want to change anything, you get free hosting. For payments, they provide the entire infrastructure to support developers. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement even if the fees are quite high. If Reddit does want to kill all third party apps complaining about how they haven't done a single thing…
The reason why they provide the payment infrastructure is because they can control everything end to end. Imagine if they allow payments outside the app and expect developers to pay 30% for those transactions. Yeah, that's not going to work. I don't think Apple/Google does payment infrastructure out of good heart. They just want to know how much an app makes and how much commission to take.
These apps will then also be a lot heavier on the phone’s battery and the users patience. So I doubt they will retain the experience the users are accustomed to.
Not really, all you need is a server that does all the scraping using cron jobs/etc and creates a reddit api backend service that pushes up new content when new content is added. In this way all that extra load would be via some server on digital ocean or even serverless functions.
You could maybe even get away with the 100 calls/minute free tier if you were doing it that way. The problem is that the user can't vote, submit, comment, or check anything personalized then, which really limits the value of the third-party app anyway.
> I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations. LoL
Sorry, but he is right on that - if 0.001% really hate you and you have millions of users, then you have a lot of crazy people.
That works for a certain class of problem, but if I have a question about woodworking, home repairs, personal finance, a video game, or a bit of geography, it's not so comprehensive.
That works for a certain class of problem, but if I have a question about woodworking, home repairs, personal finance, a video game, or a bit of geography, it's not so comprehensive.
Not really, all you need is a server that does all the scraping using cron jobs/etc and creates a reddit api backend service that pushes up new content when new content is added. In this way all that extra load would be via some server on digital ocean or even serverless functions.
You could maybe even get away with the 100 calls/minute free tier if you were doing it that way. The problem is that the user can't vote, submit, comment, or check anything personalized then, which really limits the value of the third-party app anyway.
I wonder if Reddit will let arbitrary users generate their own API keys and then each user plugs their own key into a third party app as creds to stay within the free tier limits.
Right now the new "Dev Platform" (API) is waitlisted so hard to tell.
I'm not sure how Apple/Google 30% relates? Those companies do a lot to support businesses on their platform. If you don't want to change anything, you get free hosting. For payments, they provide the entire infrastructure to support developers. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement even if the fees are quite high. If Reddit does want to kill all third party apps complaining about how they haven't done a single thing…
The reason why they provide the payment infrastructure is because they can control everything end to end. Imagine if they allow payments outside the app and expect developers to pay 30% for those transactions. Yeah, that's not going to work. I don't think Apple/Google does payment infrastructure out of good heart. They just want to know how much an app makes and how much commission to take.
I don't disagree and yet it's still a service that they provide. Dealing with user accounts, payments, refunds, taxes, recurring billing, support, etc is a pain (I know, I've done it).