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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
The obvious absence from the post, only mentioning moderation uses of the API, looks very suspicious, given the number of people who would have seen this before it went live.
Hoping you're not going to restrict just to existing apps and still allow new 3P apps to be developed, or existing ones to be forked (and for it all to still work on the free plan and not remove anything from the API to the new premium tier)
Comment by toaste at 18/04/2023 at 19:14 UTC
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It seems to be the reverse. They’re introducing more API rate limits and “reaching out” to existing apps to shake them down for money.
New 3P apps will be “allowed” and the initially small user base will fit within the free rate limit.
The best and most established 3P apps will have large user bases and will be held random for high fees. They’d have to extract subscription rates from end users to pay the toll or lose access.