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View submission: Lets talk about those API calls
Less than imgur who serves up mainly images and not text like reddit
For 50,000,000 queries imgur charges just $166, Reddit wants to charge $12,000
Comment by quarky_uk at 06/06/2023 at 14:23 UTC
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No offence to /u/Meepster23 and all the excellent info and examples at all, but this simple comparison is probably more impactful on most people.
Comment by nomdeplume at 06/06/2023 at 18:49 UTC
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Except imgur isn't profitable, doesn't have the same amount of monetization as Reddit has achieved per user (the price is not just the price of the cost, its the price of the profits+opportunity cost+infra cost).
Imgur is investor funded.
Imgur nearly went bankrupt 2 years ago.
Imgur doesn't have nearly as complicated an infrastructure or scaling problems as Reddit because they are vastly different products and user bases.
This comparison is confidently incorrect in so many ways about the reality of what things cost.