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June 30, 2023. This is the date Apollo, ReddPlanet, and Sync will shut down. about three third-party apps For Reddit, in addition to the date they’ll stop working,
June 30, 2023. This is the date Apollo, ReddPlanet, and Sync will shut down. about three third-party apps For Reddit, in addition to the date they’ll stop working, they have one more thing in common: its developers assure that they won’t be able to face the social platform’s new pricing scheme.
At the end of last month, we repeated the words of the creator of Apollo. Christian Selig claimed that after the changes made to the Reddit API, he had to pay $20 million a year to keep his app up and running. An impossible amount of money for an independent developer to undertake.
This week, Selig announced his tough decision. Eight years later, it will eventually close due to Apollo inability to meet costs API usage that pays $12,500 for every 50 million requests. Apollo makes about 7 billion requests per year, which equates to several million dollars a year.
The truth is, the moves continued with third-party apps. As The Verge said, other apps have decided to follow a similar path. “The barriers that Reddit has placed on third-party apps are not an insurmountable obstacle,” the ReddPlanet developer wrote, and went further, reassuring that “Reddit has shown that its intent is to extinguish all third parties.”
The man behind Sync, a Reddit client for Android, said he came to the following conclusion: It was better to turn off Sync before the new API changes are enabled. “To be absolutely clear, I don’t really want to turn off Sync,” he added, but confirmed that the app will stop working at the end of the month. “The way things are, I can’t see any other way.”
The new terms of use of the API are not the only changes in Reddit. According to Reuters, the platform has joined the wave of cuts in the tech sector by announcing last Tuesday that it will lay off 5% of its workforce. Nor is it the only company to impose restrictions on its API. Twitter, let’s remember, has completely cut off access to this tool, rendering third-party clients like Tweetbot useless.
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