Reported By: Shaurya Sharma<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Last Updated: July 01, 2023, 13:23 IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n San Francisco, California, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Apollo developer, Christian Selig said that the new API pricing by Reddit would cost him almost $20 million per year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Almost a month has passed since protests and outrage\u00a0engulfed\u00a0Reddit over the implementation of new API prices starting from today\u2014July 1, 2023. As a result, several popular third-party Reddit clients, such as Apollo, BaconReader, and Sync for Reddit, have been forced to shut down.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, when you try to open Apollo for Reddit, it says \u201cThank You,\u201d followed by a note from its founder, Christian Selig. \u201cApollo shut down on June 30th due to Reddit making drastic and sudden increases to API pricing for developers.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Christian Selig said in May that the new API pricing by Reddit would cost him almost $20 million per year, and that it would not be sustainable for him to continue to run the app.<\/p>\n However, some apps\u2014like Narwhal and Relay for Reddit\u2014have decided to abide by Reddit\u2019s new API pricing, and are going \u2018subscription-only.\u2019<\/p>\n As per The Verge<\/em>, apps with accessibility features\u2014including Luna, Dystopia, and RedReader have been exempted from paying API fee; ergo, they are still available to use.<\/p>\n Apollo for Reddit and other third-party apps\u00a0have become increasingly popular\u2014and many people used them as their primary way to browse Reddit. This is why some of the most influential subreddits on the platform protested against Reddit. <\/span><\/p>\n Around\u00a08000 subreddits went dark (private) to protest. Some even threatened Reddit by opening up NSFW content, which would allow porn on the subreddits. However, Reddit shut down the protests as expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Reported By: Shaurya Sharma Last Updated: July 01, 2023, 13:23 IST San Francisco, California, USA Apollo developer, Christian Selig said that the new API pricing by Reddit would cost him almost $20 million per year. Reddit is implementing new API prices starting from today\u2014July 1, 2023. As a result, several popular third-party Reddit clients, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Apollo](\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&width=510&height=356\" "\\"Apollo"){kind=logo}
<\/figure>\nReddit is implementing new API prices starting from today\u2014July 1, 2023. As a result, several popular third-party Reddit clients, such as Apollo, BaconReader, and Sync for Reddit, have been forced to shut down.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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