Relay for Reddit could cost between $1 and $5 per month.
  • C4d@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Problem is they even with paying the third party app gets an inferior experience (no polls, nothing marked NSFW).

  • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    This won’t work out. Reddit is hostile to any third party app and will screw this dev over hard at any and every chance.

    To the dev: Bail while you can dude.

    • fry@fry.gsOPEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      Yea, I think this app developer is misreading what Reddit is really trying to accomplish . They weren’t trying to monetize third party apps, they were just trying to get rid of them.

    • fry@fry.gsOPEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, haven’t really looked back since coming over to Lemmy

      • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I’m in love with Lemmy. It feels like Reddit did when Reddit was fun and you weren’t a speck in the crowd. Same for Mastodon and the early days of Twitter.

        Currently weighing whether or not I want to pay for a lifetime subscription to the app I’m using on iOS. These guys can still find ways to make money, but I think relying solely on Reddit and trusting them not to further jack up the prices is a risky move.

        • fry@fry.gsOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Same, it feels like most of the people on Lemmy are just here because they’re interested in the topics for each of the communities they subscribe to.

          I paid for Bean on iOS, it really feels like the Apollo of Lemmy. The developer is also super responsive and is constantly putting out fast updates.

  • tommy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    It is so sad no one ever mention infinity. Such a good app. And no one gives a shit

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The costs of a subscription will go up based on a user’s daily average number of API calls, essentially meaning that the more things a person does in the app, the more they might have to pay.

    Here is the full list, from developer DBrady’s post, which appears to include Google’s take of the subscription and Relay’s expected revenues:

    In the newest release of Relay, DBrady says they also added the ability for users to see their average daily API calls.

    The plan is for a subscription to roll out in two or three weeks from the time of their post and they expect to charge a monthly cost of $3 or $4.

    “This won’t cover the cost of ‘super users’ who use the app all day, but, on average, it should allow me to pay the Reddit API bill,” the developer said.

    Many subreddits and users protested against the switch to the paid API in-party because of its effect on the third-party app ecosystem.

    I’m a bot and I’m open source!