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Announcement 📣📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is.(self.apolloapp)
submitted 2 years, 7 months ago* (edited 2 weeks, 5 days after) by iamthatisApollo Developer to /r/apolloapp (733.5k)
Hey all,
I'll cut to the chase: 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever co...
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I'd take a bet that Old Reddit is dead in 12 months.
If it is, I'm out of here too.
A lot of us will go.
Looking at the current stats, I don't think Reddit would even care if 80% of old.reddit users decided to leave the platform.
On the sub I mod they currently make up only ~8% of unique visitors compare that to ~23% on new Reddit with the rest on some combination of mobile.
At least, that would be the initial plan until they have to deal with the backlash of most moderators quitting leaving many subs as pure anarchy.
Are there stats on activity/engagement levels? Anyone using old reddit has been around for several years and has a high level of loyalty to the platform; I wouldn’t be surprised if they were more active commenters/posters. Hard to say, though.
Also just realized this change is going to nuke a lot of bots that are beloved and active parts of the community. RIP.
The only other stat we have available is pageviews which tell a pretty similar story (even more leaning toward mobile if anything).
Most bots will be okay outside of the largest subs as in theory they can make 100 API calls a minute, widely used ones may suffer though. And god only knows if bots on NSFW subs are going to work anymore as they've been incredibly vague on that.
Mobile dominates on the sub I'm most active on. Old Reddit is the least used platform. If Old Reddit was most used we wouldn't be having this conversation.
I expect them to take over the big subs to avoid the subs locking, and then they'll survive the wave of discontent. And that'll be that.
holy shit, 69% (nice) of reddit users are on mobile?
Bear in mind that it's a sub for a mobile game so data is likely a little skwed but, based on talks with others, 60+% is a typical baseline with larger subs being higher.
There's a reason so many now refer to Reddit as an app.
Do you know what percentage of your mobile users are on the official app?
I sometimes open reddit on a private tab, where it defaults to the awful new reddit interface... and I am genuinely shocked at the amount of ads disguised as posts there are. Stomach-churning stuff. How has it gotten so bad? I've never seen those on old reddit.
That’s the only way I can browse Reddit on PC. If I lose Apollo and old.reddit I may just be done entirely.
Ohhh yeah. The Old Reddit + RES combo is my jam. If that goes away, I'll probably use the site significantly less, if at all.
not quite
I'll take being wrong here.
Still feels like we're on borrowed time though.
Want to make another bet? I’m 85% sure than in 12 months old.reddit is still here
You know, I don't even mind the shitty design, but the performance is so fucking bad on new reddit, after scrolling about a hundred posts it gets laggy and slow as fuck, and I can play pretty much any game on my current pc. How the hell did they manage to make a website so unoptimized in this day and age is beyond comprehension.
If the api changes go through and apollo/rif gets shut down, I won't be using reddit in mobile, and if they kill old.reddit, I'd probably only visit a few niche subs if any at all, and no way in hell I'm actually browsing anything with the new design.
RemindMe! One Year
old.reddit + RES extension = bliss
That’s the spirit
Right click - open link incognito
Or when they respond with an embedded image.
You can see profile pictures in old.reddit by mousing over usernames. I didn't bother with it for years, but uploaded a selfie recently just for fun.
I can’t stand any other version of Reddit it’s so damn bad
When this news broke, my first question was, "Does RES have to send API requests?"
New reddit is terrible, I will stop visiting all together if we lose old reddit.
That’s the only way I can use Reddit on desktop. They’ll 100% kill it off before they go public
"reddit is fun" app has the old reddit vibes if you're interested.
But we'll see what happens with all this shit.
It's "rif is fun" now, Reddit went after the devs for using Reddit in the name
lol, that's dumb. Thanks for the correction though.
This website is unusable without either old.reddit or a good app. If both of those things disappear I'll find it very difficult to keep using this site.
If they kill Apollo, I’ll stop using Reddit on my phone. If they kill old.reddit I’m deleting my Reddit user altogether. Without at least one of those two, reddit is utterly unusable.
Remind me if they kill old.resdit, would ya? Account deletion pact?
If old reddit disappears, I'm done. I'll have nothing to do with the new site. Absolutely fuck that noise.
Don't give them any ideas. I had forgot till now that they even updated the layout since I use old.reddit.com exclusively everywhere. If they get rid of it, they will get rid of me. Honestly, might be for the best.
i.reddit.com is gone? Fuck.
About a year ago one of the admins jerked off that they literally support every single old browser and player for Reddit
They even specifically pointed to some super obscure old way to browse Reddit that look like it came from an original iPod browser or something
I said they would never kill any of these old technologies
Yikes
yea when old.reddit.com is gone, I'm gone.
If they kill old.reddit I'm done with this site forever.
Yeah. I'd be sad to lose good 3rd party apps, but I do most of my browsing and moderation on old.reddit on the desktop. If I lose old.reddit, I'm gone after 15+ years here.
I was thinking the same thing. Old reddit is the only way it’s palatable on desktop
New reddit doesn't properly convey the majesty that is /r/ooerintensifies
The day they take away old.reddit.com is the day the site will be dead for me. Reddit is Fun and old.reddit.com until I die
Same, which is a bummer. Reddit has a few tech subs I've found useful in the past, but new.reddit is unusable from my POV
if they disable old reddit i'm gone forever. I jumped ship from dig when they ruined their UI. The only reason I still use reddit is because old.reddit.com makes it tolerable.
I can get censored news from a million places today...why do I need to be babysat on reddit?
At least twitter lets the algorithm fly....
Oh well I guess we'll see if they go the route of digg or listen to their users