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Reddit down10/3/2023 He has been covering tech news and reviewing devices since joining Android Police as a news writer in 2019. Manuel Vonau is Android Police's Google Editor, with expertise in Android, Chrome, and other Google products - the very core of Android Police’s content. His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place-saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally recording and leaking a private phone call-to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.” During the AMA, Huffman answered a question about Reddit’s conversation with Selig with, “His ‘joke’ is the least of our issues. In this case, Reddit CEO Huffman wanted to talk to the community about the controversial changes to API monetization. Reddit then hastily scheduled an Ask Me Anything for Friday, June 9, AMA for short, which is a format established by the platform and allows Redditos to ask someone any questions they would like to. Since Selig lives in Canada where one-party consent is enough to allow phone call recordings, he should be well within his rights to record the conversations, too. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman claims that Selig tried to blackmail or threaten the company, though the records shared by Selig make it appear like a misunderstanding, with the Reddit representative profoundly apologizing. The community is also worried about Reddit's trajectory, given that its CEO makes clear the company wants to profit more clearly from the data provided by its users all while moderators are essentially working for free.Īpollo developer Christian Selig also says that the Reddit leadership slanders him, backed with recorded evidence of phone calls with the Reddit team. On top of this, Reddit decided to cut all third-party services off from explicit or Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content, so third-party developers would be forced to charge a lot more money for less content than you will find on the official website or app. The new API prices are going live on July 1, and he'd needed significantly more time to come up with exact pricing, push changes live in the App Store, and determine how to deal with currently active subscribers. While it may be possible to continue service by offering his app on a subscription-only basis going forward, Selig determined that other than the exorbitant costs, the time frame was simply too short to make the switch. This translates to a price of about $2.50 per Apollo user per month. According to him, it would cost him $20 million per year to keep his app running as is under the new pricing, with Reddit charging $12,000 per 50 million API requests. The community was wary about this announcement from the beginning, but in talks with the developer of popular Reddit third-party app Apollo, Christian Selig, the company assured that it wouldn’t charge an exorbitant amount of money and didn’t want to turn into Twitter (which famously made its API prohibitively expensive, all but preventing researchers from using Twitter data for studies and third-party app developers from maintaining their services).įast-forward to June this year, and Reddit shared more details about its planned pricing with app developers, with Selig being the person to come forward and explain the situation to the community.
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