Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
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Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#2The owner of this client should just try to replace underlying Reddit with something else. Someone tried something similar years ago they bought up all the popular twitter clients
Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#3Speaking as an Apollo user for five years, the official app is just terrible. From big problems like confusing/inconsistent navigation and missing video and text formatting options to annoyances like slow/delayed animations and janky scrolling, there's just a huge lack of thought or polish in Reddit's app.
I think Reddit is just embarrassed that one guy can make an app that's so, so, soooo much better than their slow, cluttered, ugly, expensive app.
Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#4The owner of this client should just try to replace underlying Reddit with something else. Someone tried something similar years ago they bought up all the popular twitter clients
It is a good idea in theory, but the timeline is tricky. It isn't realistic to get something up and running before Reddit cuts them off, and by the time they could the users would have moved on.
Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#5The owner of this client should just try to replace underlying Reddit with something else. Someone tried something similar years ago they bought up all the popular twitter clients
What? There are many people who pay to use Christian's app specifically to interact with Reddit. If Apollo suddenly switched to another social network, it would make a lot of people understandably angry
Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#6It's inevitable that I'll still have to filter search results by Reddit to find genuine information, but if the only option for Reddit is the official app/website, I'll just stop browsing and commenting altogether. I don't understand how their official app could remain so bad.
Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#7The owner of this client should just try to replace underlying Reddit with something else. Someone tried something similar years ago they bought up all the popular twitter clients
The suggestion I saw that I like is just to allow bringing your own API key. That way I can pay for my (and ONLY my) usage at whatever level I'm comfortable with.
Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#8Speaking as an Apollo user for five years, the official app is just terrible. From big problems like confusing/inconsistent navigation and missing video and text formatting options to annoyances like slow/delayed animations and janky scrolling, there's just a huge lack of thought or polish in Reddit's app. I think Reddit is just embarrassed that one guy can make an app that's so, so, soooo much better than their slow…
They should just buy it from the developer.
Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#9Everything built on hardware you don't own is doomed to end like that at scale, yes?
When are we going back to owning your own fast, light, redundant hardware so you don't have to charge millions for free APIs that were responsible for all your growth in the first place?
Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
#10It's inevitable that I'll still have to filter search results by Reddit to find genuine information, but if the only option for Reddit is the official app/website, I'll just stop browsing and commenting altogether. I don't understand how their official app could remain so bad.
What's really strange is Reddit could have a good app because they just bought the most popular iOS client, Alien Blue, back in 2014.
I still can't understand why they would buy a perfectly good app just to replace it.