• ThesePaycheckAvenging@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Just wow. Never knew it was that bad. I’ve been browsing with adblock since forever and quit Reddit immediately when RIF stopped working. Wouldn’t be able to tolerate that official shit one minute.

    • aeternum@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      RIF was always my go to on Android. I hope Talklittle makes a lemmy/kbin client that also works on iOS as I am on that now.

      • Remmy@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        It amazes me how horrible it’s become through official channels. I don’t understand how someone can use that app and be fine with it.

        • pgm_01@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          Plato’s cave. If all you have ever experienced is a shit app, then the shit app seems fine to most people. Others will recognize its faults but not how bad it is because they think that the only alternative is to have no app.

        • aeternum@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          you don’t anymore. speddit is turning off the API unless the TPA devs pay big money. which AFAIK, talklittle isn’t going to do.

          • mariol66@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            Ah must’ve read it wrong. Thought that you were referring to a kbin app they were working on

            • aeternum@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              oh. well, there’s artemis that in private alpha at the moment. should be out in a few weeks i hope. Plus kbin is a PWA, so you can add it to your home screen.

              • mariol66@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                I have the pwa but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to add my favorite magazines to the sidebar for easy access

  • ShadowPouncer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The really really sad thing is, Reddit could have done a half decent job and made a fair bit of money, but they decided on stupidity instead.

    Sure, it would have upset some people a bit, but… Not by anywhere close to the same degree.

    Alright, we’re sorry, but use of the API is going to have to start costing money for some kinds of uses.

    First off, people that just want to scrape everything get the following access, and a much higher rate limit, but it’s going to cost $x.

    Moderator tools will always be free, but the API will require that the tool be associated with a moderator, and it will only permit access to subs that the user is a moderator for.

    Community bots will generally be free, subject to the following restrictions.

    And 3rd party clients will be charged a minimal amount, calculated to be roughly equal to what we are making from similar users on the official clients, to make up for lost ad revenue. Alternate options involving profit sharing may be viable, contact X for details.

    By accepting the API agreement, you agree that use of the wrong class of API usage (for example, using the community bot or 3rd party client classes for data scraping) will be billed, retroactively, at $X * 10.

    There. That’s really not that hard. And people would have been much less upset at that, at least as long as the fees were actually as described, and not based on, say, how much they would like to make per user.

    You’d probably want a free tier for 3rd party clients for users of specific account types. If the user is paying for Reddit Premium, maybe 3rd party clients don’t get charged for API usage for that user account. Or if the user is a moderator for a given subreddit, API usage for that user on that subreddit is also free. With an API that the client can use to check the status of such things. If they were smart, they would also have a process for users with disabilities to have their accounts exempted from fees. That last one is hard, because you need a verification process, but it would get them a lot of good will.

    Again… This shouldn’t be hard. And it would have turned into a viable revenue stream!

    Hell, flatly disclose that the 3rd party cost is 30% more than the average cost of using the standard client, to support the effort required to maintain the API. (Largely bullshit, but it makes those users more valuable than those that use the official client, while not being expensive enough to make it impossible for anyone to offer a 3rd party client at an even remotely sane cost.)

    Yes, this would have very sadly been the end of free 3rd party clients… But I for one would have been… Okay with paying a small amount per month/year through the app store for a client that didn’t suck.

    Instead, Reddit decided that committing suicide was the better path forward.

  • MerylasFalguard@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Shit like this is why I switched to a third party app a while ago. I used to have the official app on my phone because iOS and everything I remembered seeing as far as 3PAs went was all for Android before I heard of Apollo. But the fact that I was seeing “posts” like this every three-or-so posts, and the fact that they were all over the comments as well was just way too much.

    It’s exactly why I will not go back. I have like three niche subreddits saved that have no real equivalent in the Fediverse and I’ll only check in on occasion. Through Old.Reddit. With a browser that has an ad blocker built in.

  • apemint@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Just last week someone retorted to me with “I’ve been using the official app for 2 years and I’m happy”.

    I’m still not sure whether I was talking to an AI…

  • CarlsIII@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Good riddance to askreddit. Page after page of “what tv show should be brought back?” with every top comment being Firefly, as if the people answering have no idea there was a movie that killed off half of the characters.