• TauZero@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    All they had to do was offer API keys with Reddit Premium. Plug-and-play into your 3rd-party-app of choice. Can’t believe those dum-dums chose to kill off their golden goose instead.

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      1 year ago

      I suspect they could’ve overcharged still, but just shut their mouths and continued as normal. Each new tactic is awful and self harming.

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        1 year ago

        All the 3pa’s shut down business the moment the actual API prices were announced. This wasn’t a protest move, the prices were simply 20 times higher than what they were promised and impossible to work into their business model. Reddit couldn’t have overcharged and continued as normal - it was a deliberate move to kill off 3pa while pretending they are not. Reddit COULD have charged this API price to users directly via Reddit Premium, but failed to do so.

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          1 year ago

          I think it also important to note that it wasn’t just the pricing itself, which was indeed already heinous, but that the rate calculation changed. It used to be a rate per user per app (apikey+oauth) but they changed that to just the per app … that then has a multiplicative effect on the costs and makes the “free tier” they were talking about especially pointless…

          It would be easy for an app to start at free tier … not have much growth through word of mouth but enough given the per app rates to push it over boundary points … and then be due a significant and unavoidable invoice in a couple of months…

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      1 year ago

      Speaking of API keys, the free key allows just a little bit of traffic, which is probably just enough for a single user, but not enough for all the Apollo users added together. So, my idea is that what if every user had their own personal key…

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        Reddit would likely put a wall up to prevent non-developers from getting keys. I deal with enterprise applications that do that to prevent just that sort of thing. Basically you require developer registeration, and refuse any applicant that doesn’t show they are really a developer.

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          1 year ago

          I just asked Bing to write some VBA code that adds two numbers together. Here’s the code.

          `Sub AddTwoNumbers() Dim x As Integer Dim y As Integer Dim z As Integer

          x = 1
          y = 1
          z = x + y
          
          MsgBox "The result is " & z
          

          End Sub `

          I’m a VBA developer now. I’m entitled to get my own API, right?

          Oh, but that’s not all, there’s also a Whitespace version of my program.

          `Here is a possible whitespace code that adds two numbers together 1+1:

            		 	 	 	 	 	 # push 1
            		 	 	 	 	 	 # push 1
            		 	 	 	 # add
            		 	 	 # print as number
            		 	 	 	 	 # exit
          ``` `
          
          Before you ask, Wthisepace is an actual programming languga, alot like Brainfuck.