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To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.

It's her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite.

In my view, the cross section of "IfR" users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy).

And if Apollo's dev Christian Selig decided that it wasn't worth it with an already established paying user base, who already has a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I don't see how a small app like IfR can survive.

That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake...

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[–] jacktherippah 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You honestly can't blame them for trying to adapt and keep their project going. It's either they start doing a subscription model or Infinity dies. They aren't allowed to make a tutorial for you to just replace their API key with your own, so what choice do they have? (you can do that btw, there are tutorials on the Infinity subreddit, although you're limited to 100 calls a day)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeeaah I just uninstalled Infinity. It was my go to app for years after Slide fizzled out. Not sure how many users that are into open source will be willing to pay Reddit..

[–] mordred 3 points 1 year ago

Paying for user generated content while the company behind aggregation profits from ads. Madness IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same, it's a bit sad, but I've not used it for weeks and I'm certainly not going to start paying

[–] zombuey 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean aren't they just trying to cover the cost of operation? I guess they figure we can make it a subscription based app or we can shut it down. IFR has no choice in the matter. Reddit made this decision.

[–] megane_kun 3 points 1 year ago

True, they're just trying to cover the cost of operation. However, at that point, I think the best move is to just cut your losses and quit.

Reddit made that decision without regard for any effects it might cause to the 3rd party app developers. Reddit does not care. What's stopping them from pushing a change that would cripple any remaining third party apps without warning?

None. Reddit does what it wants.

Continuing to work with such an unreliable company is just asking for trouble.

[–] grissee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

oot but, who is 'her' exactly?

edit: guys I'm serious, idk if op just mixed the pronouns or christian is a trans (unlikely since christian is a man name)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] grissee 1 points 1 year ago

I see, thanks, all this time I was under impression that Christian is the infinity dev

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"her" is the infinity dev I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I guess my hope, although knowing it is naive and improbable, is that come 1st of July, the few people that were staying to see If reddit backtracked their terrible mistake, following the shutting down of the 3rd party apps will either stop using reddit all together or slowly begin using it less and less, that much I think will happen.

Then, my hope is, seeing the slow down on content creation, traffic and user interactions reddit will slowly and discreetly, trying to save fuck-spez's face, roll back on some choices or make some concessions to allow 3rd party apps to come back ... But not holding my breath on it.

I know at this point in time, seeing spez dissimisive attitude and knowing it's not on their best interest to look weak or relinquish control of the site to the user base, once the decision was made, they won't go back unless the ramifications are near catastrophic, like losing all together 100% of the people that like me used 3rd party to browse reddit.

End of rambling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

dang, wonder how much they're going to charge

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