Saw Reddit's new API pricing kill off 3 favorite apps in under 2 months

I used Apollo for Reddit for like 4 years straight, best mobile app I ever had. Then June hit and they announced the $20 million per year API price. By August 1st, Apollo was gone, along with Sync and Reddit is Fun. I watched the developer's goodbye post and he said the pricing would cost him $2.5 million a month just to keep running. Has anyone else just given up on mobile Reddit and switched to desktop only because of this?

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marydavis1mo ago

Is it just me or does every company these days think they can cash in on their user base until nothing's left? I’ve been on this site since 2012 and watched it slowly turn into a cash grab. The API thing was the last straw for me. I still check it on my laptop but my phone stay empty now. It’s like they forgot regular people built this place, not investors. Feels like every service is pulling this now. Remember when Netflix was good and you could actually share your login without getting banned? Same pattern. They squeeze till it breaks.

wade2501mo ago

Actually Netflix never really banned sharing, they just started charging extra for it (which is still annoying, I know).

karenb971mo ago

Happens everywhere now, @wade250. Even my grocery store app started charging extra just to use the digital coupons. Everything's a subscription or a fee these days.