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Christian made some excellent points in multiple interviews regarding API efficiency. One example is the difference in responsiveness by making one call to request 100 posts, vs the 4x shorter response time by requesting 25 for an immediate display, then queuing 100, resulting in a more responsive and fluid experience for the user.

I think Reddit grossly misrepresented Apollo’s “inefficiency” especially when comparing Apollo to their own application, which is objectively more burdensome to their own infrastructure due to its doubling of API calls over Apollo’s to deliver the same information.

He was given a boundary and worked within it, not knowing he’d be unfairly compared to less optimized applications that either delivered a more sluggish experience but used less API calls, or high usage applications that are also worse from a UX standpoint. No matter how you look at it, Reddit is in the wrong for usurious fees and outright lying, or by misrepresenting the facts in bad faith.

Everyone was ready to embrace monetary changes and support the platform.