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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

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

typon wrote: post #13

Am I the online who uses Firefox and old.reddit.com to browse reddit on my phone? It works pretty well.

Not alone but definitely in the minority.

I am not sure if it is statistically significant but I founded a small tech sub-reddit (~30k users) and from the moderator stats 70% of traffic is from their iOS app.

I used to use 'reddit.com/.compact' which was an actual mobile friendly and light interface, but that was depricated this year and now, like you, I am stuck with old.reddit.com on mobile.

Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

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Post by basisword »

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #21

I'm pretty tired of the outrage headlines. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed, and willing to move on. I'm not interested in the web or official app, and while I really appreciate Reddit, I spend a lot of time on the site that could probably be spent elsewhere, and maybe this change provides the impetus for me to find healthier ways of using my time.

You find healthier ways to use your time, a developer loses his livelihood. The outrage is at the latter, not about how you use Reddit.

Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

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Post by cheeze »

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #21

I'm pretty tired of the outrage headlines. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed, and willing to move on. I'm not interested in the web or official app, and while I really appreciate Reddit, I spend a lot of time on the site that could probably be spent elsewhere, and maybe this change provides the impetus for me to find healthier ways of using my time.

That's fine for you, but for many this represents "the end of Reddit as they know it today"

Kind of a big deal for me.

Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

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Post by MrStonedOne »

turnsout wrote: post #5
Irishsteve wrote: post #2

The 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

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Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

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Post by techscruggs »

Irishsteve wrote: post #2

The 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 reason why everyone is upset is because Apollo works perfectly for the Reddit use case while the official client does not. Sure it is technically superior, but it is "better" from a product management perspective.

Reddit, Tumblr, TikTok, Instagram, etc, all attract a similar type of user but they are different products that engage people in different types of social interactions.

You can't port that.

Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

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Post by jsnell »

This has been discussed to death in the last couple of days, and I don't see any new information in this article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36162235

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36142285

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36142418

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36147252

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36143308

Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

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Post by turnsout »

TylerE wrote: post #7
Irishsteve wrote: post #2

The 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.

Unfortunately the number of people who would pay for both an Apollo subscription AND their own Reddit use AND would be willing to obtain and enter an API key is effectively zero.

Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

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Post by daveidol »

turnsout wrote: post #5
Irishsteve wrote: post #2

The 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

Sure, but what’s the alternative? Shutting it down? Like that won’t make people angry too…

Re: Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

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Post by ezekg »

basisword wrote: post #42
andrewstuart2 wrote: post #21

I'm pretty tired of the outrage headlines. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed, and willing to move on. I'm not interested in the web or official app, and while I really appreciate Reddit, I spend a lot of time on the site that could probably be spent elsewhere, and maybe this change provides the impetus for me to find healthier ways of using my time.

You find healthier ways to use your time, a developer loses his livelihood. The outrage is at the latter, not about how you use Reddit.

This is just business. He'll figure it out. He's a businessman, after all.
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