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smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Love how the other part of this API thing is that NSFW content won’t be in the API so you have to use the official app if you want porn.

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smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

They definitely cannot pick a message between:
1) third party apps are leeches and we want to kill them off
2) this is a reasonable price for API access

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

I secretly believe that if Apollo popped up a dialog that said “at the new Reddit API pricing of $0.24 per 1,000 requests, your cost last month would have been $X”, the $X would be under $1 for most users.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

not even a year, it's already mostly back to normal by the looks of things

The second half of this is all the third party apps actually shutting down on June 30. After the protest people just went back to using Apollo I’m sure but they only have a week left of that.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

so did the protest work? is reddit dead now?

It “worked” in that it made the people running Reddit look even worse. But at the end of the day you can’t have a strike from inside the factory because they’ll just kick you out and that’s basically what Reddit did.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/getnarwhal/comments/14kt9wj/narwhal_is_not_going_anywhere_subscriptions_and/

quote:

Hey all, I want to give you an update on what is happening with Narwhal. I've been talking with Reddit a lot about the API changes and what it will mean for Narwhal.

Narwhal is not going anywhere on July 1st. It will continue to operate as it has for many years (except it will not have ads anymore). Over the next few months, I am going to be adding subscriptions into Narwhal 2. The subscriptions will be there to cover the cost of using the Reddit API. I am still figuring out what to do for heavy power users, but there may be a base plan which includes X number of API requests/month and you can top up your balance with another purchase. The subscription will likely be in the $4-$7 range to start. It may change based on total usage of the app (either up or down) to cover the costs of using the reddit API.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

I’m surprised they haven’t strong-armed r/BestOf yet. Still locked down with no content.

https://reddit.com/r/bestof

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Khanstant posted:

Was excited for RiF to stop working and then I'd uninstall but it just... Keeps working like normal? Idgi

I guess the Reddit API was free and so they didn’t have anyone’s payment details, and they can’t just start charging people without them agreeing to the terms, so I suppose it’s up to Reddit to kill the API keys if the developers don’t.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Djarum posted:

Looks like Reddit finally killed Alien Blue. RIP to me using Reddit ever again.

Wasn’t Alien Blue turned into the official Reddit app years ago?

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

TIL if you try to open an RSS feed on an iPhone, it shows you a custom message offering to search the App Store for an RSS reader.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

I paid for the Alien Blue app once, and that got me four years of Reddit Gold in 2016 when Reddit bought it and shut it down. I think that gave me monthly coins which I never once spent.

So, apparently I have 22,700 coins that will now be officially worthless, rather than de facto worthless.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/18/23799266/reddit-app-icons-ugly

quote:

Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now / If you want a better one, you can pay for Reddit’s premium subscription

If you’re not a fan of the new pixelated Reddit icon on your iPhone, I have some bad news: unless you want to switch to an icon themed around the Dogecoin dog or WallStreetBets, you’ll have to subscribe to Reddit Premium to be able to use an icon that just features the regular Reddit logo.

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smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Between losing Twitter and Reddit, honestly hard to keep up with some niche topics. So I do still have bookmarks to a couple of subreddits but I am not logged in. I am not installing their app.

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