Screenshot from Reddit, June 2023<\/span><\/p>\n The following are messages from the people behind some of Reddit’s top apps offering insight into why they’re being forced to shut them down.<\/p>\n According to publication<\/a> by Christian Selig, creator of Apollo for Reddit for iOS, with over 170,000 ratings on App store<\/a>access to Reddit’s API would cost $2 million per month.<\/p>\n The price they gave was $0.24 per 1000 API calls. I quickly put this into my app and saw that it wasn’t far off from Twitter’s exceptionally high API pricing of $12,000, and with my current usage it would cost almost $2 million a month, or over 20 million dollars annually. That’s not an exaggeration, that’s just multiplying the 7 billion requests Apollo made last month by the price per request.<\/p>\n While Selig appreciate<\/a> Supported by subreddits boycotting the API changes, Apollo plans to shut down on June 30th.<\/p>\n Rumored discussions between the popular app developer and Reddit led to one of the top votes for Huffman. comments<\/a> on Reddit about the API changes.<\/p>\n In addition to paying for access to Reddit’s API, app developers would lose the opportunity to generate ad revenue for their apps.<\/p>\n A publication<\/a> of the Reddit is Fun (RIF) app about its impending demise, with over 445,000 ratings as of Play Store<\/a>explains it<\/p>\n As part of this, they are blocking ads in third-party apps, which account for the majority of RIF’s revenue. So they want to force a paid subscription model on RIF users. Meanwhile, the official Reddit app still continues to make the vast majority of its money from ads.<\/p>\n Huffman acknowledged RIF and Apollo as popular apps being shut down in the memo leaked by Virgin<\/a>.<\/p>\n While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we’re still in conversations with some of the others.<\/p>\n RIF too grateful<\/a> Redditors for their support during the Reddit boycott. Long term users expressed<\/a> his gratitude and sadness.<\/p>\n I have been using this app for 10 years. I can’t believe it’s coming to an end. Back then, there was no official reddit app (I actually thought this was the official one at first), but even when reddit released their app, I never thought about changing it, because this app is literally perfect .<\/p>\n Thanks to everyone involved in creating this wonderful app.<\/p>\n Apps like Relay for Reddit for Android, with over 72,000 ratings on the Play Store<\/a>will no longer be able to offer a free version<\/a> for users.<\/p>\n TLDR: There is no way to continue with the free version of Relay; a monthly subscription price of $3 (or less) could be achieved.<\/p>\n Unlike other social networks, Reddit is known for its strong community. Reddit app developers are supported by their users and the moderators of thousands of subreddits.<\/p>\n How long will hundreds of popular Reddit communities stay private? And how will a prolonged Reddit boycott affect Reddit’s organic search traffic and ad revenue? We will follow the data and keep you updated.<\/p>\nMonthly cost for access to the Reddit API: $2 million<\/h2>\n
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Screenshot from Reddit, June 2023<\/span><\/p>\nAPI changes prevent app developers from earning advertising revenue<\/h2>\n
No more free Reddit apps<\/h2>\n
The future of Reddit is unclear<\/h2>\n
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