Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.

  • Indie@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Exactly my scenario. They really fucked the chicken up with the move to charge for API access.

    It’s amazing how history always finds a way of repeating itself. The ignorance to not acknowledge what happened to digg, and what sent so many to deadit is laughable. I would be very interested to see what traffic looks like now to reddit, and how much of it is coming from their app, which I think they said they will start charging a monthly subscription fee for. That CEO should have the cheese touch after that debacle.

    • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Really a subscription for the basic tier app? That would be madness.

      Of course it’s madness now that they charge $50/year now for premium. It was paying the highest’ tier of Apollo and it was $10/year and actually had features I wanted.

    • kat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE APP???

      What alternate reality are they living in?

      • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        FFS. It doesn’t even work half the time.

        You’d think that knowing they were going to do this they’d have put some effort into making it work a bit better, but no.