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Reddit going the Twitter route

Friday, 9 June 2023

Christian Selig (developer of Apollo App for browsing Reddit) has said:

June 30th will be Apollo’s last day. I’ve talked to a lot of people, and come to terms with this over the last weeks as talks with Reddit have deteriorated to an ugly point.

The problem isn't (and has never been) that companies running APIs want to be compensated. That’s perfectly fair and as someone who manages servers and creates software, it’s understandable that both the costs of the equipment and engineering time for the software needs to be covered.

The problem is two-fold.

1. Announcing an unrealistic pricing structure without adequate time for a developer to properly adapt and essentially bankrupting them -  Selig says he’ll lose $250,000 in the shutdown.

2. Lying about their reasons. Thankfully Selig has recordings and can hopefully get some damages from them.

So, June 30th will be my last day as a registered Reddit user. I’ll be deleting my account, just as I did with Facebook and Twitter. Doubtless I’ll still end up on the site from Google searches and links, but I won’t be logged in.