• ChargingDoorman@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Only the accessibility focused apps will be allowed by Reddit to continue free of cost. The other 3rd party apps will shutdown at the end of this month since their API costs will be too much for them to bear.

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      1 year ago

      @ChargingDoorman sorry my comment was with a heavy dose of /s. Given they valued the Apollo traffic at ~20MM my tongue in cheek was saying to keep using the 3rd party apps cos it’s “costing” them so much money.

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      1 year ago

      Only the accessibility focused apps will be allowed by Reddit to continue as long as they aren’t monetized. Sure, if you want to allow blind people to read Reddit because we can’t figure out how to do it, go nuts. But only as long as you don’t expect anything for your time and effort.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, in theory I suppose that they could set up their own subscription systems, but their users would have to be paying out on a regular basis.

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      Actually, I’m not even sure that app authors are allowed to do that. Apple is really strict about purchases not going through the App Store for iOS – they want their 30% cut. And I don’t know if the App Store supports subscription models. Maybe it does, I dunno, don’t use an iOS device myself.