Infuriating that this is going ahead. Apollo was Reddit. For me, Reddit no longer exists.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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Amen.
Lifetime Ultra user here, I hope most people opt out. Such a shitty situation, hope reddit suffers the consequences.
They won’t in the short term.
In the long run they’ll hopefully go the way of myspace/digg.
It takes a long time for a juggernaut to die. They can circle the drain for years
I just went through and unsubbed 90% of my subs. Now when I go on reddit to check something, it’s just too boring to stick around for long.
I wonder if Christian will implement an account nuking or overwrite feature or something in his last update.
There’s Redacted for that though, works great. I would do it before they change API pricing in a day or two
WTF! I payed for pro and ultra and i deleted my account already lol
You’re all good! I’m also an Ultra + Pro user and there’s no refund needed. Apple treats that kind of transaction as a one time payment. It’s only those who subscribe for a set amount of time (month or year) that are offered refunds.
F
That just means you've donated your refund to a good cause.
Didn't realize a refund would be a reverse payment, although that makes sense after thinking about it. Not as big of a problem to face if a developer is given more than 30 days to shut things down. Can he seek financial damage for Huffman's rash and illogical decision? Probably not, but not a lawyer.
There's a case to be made that this is anti-competitive behavior on Reddit's part. They offer an API, set usage limits for it, then pull the rug the moment they decide they want to make more money. Okay, that's actually all fine. Their servers, their rules.
What ISN'T fine is Huffman's blatant statements that they don't like other developers making money off of their work, which would indicate that the pricing they landed on is not based in reality but is instead based on an intent to kill off third party apps without having the balls to say as much.
I don't know how strong of a case this would be, but a sufficiently advanced lawyer is indistinguishable from magic.
If Christian made business decisions based on promises made by Reddit which they reneged on, he has a case under promissory estoppel.
He already has a case for libel based on statements made by spez.
And didn’t they tell him there would be no major API changes, specifically in terms of cost “in 2023”?
I ditched Reddit because of this… Apollo for Lemmy would be so great!
Edit: Here you https://shreddit.com/
Does anyone know a reliable way to nuke your reddit account without manually going through and deleting everything?
I used PowerDeleteSuite which I've been told is a more privacy focused alternative and I found it really simple to use. Took a few minutes to nuke the account data. If you are replacing your comments it takes quite a bit longer though.
Also, anyone who wants to use this tools should probably do it before this months ends. These tools rely on the API to work.
They say devs pay it out of their pocket like they didn't pocket the money before