Unhappy with Reddit - what revenue model works for you?

Question

Following the saga about Reddit, I am siding with Reddit. If your users get the value from unofficial clients, by passing the ads - your main revenue stream, it is only reasonable to ask them pay. I don&rsquo;t use Reddit unofficial clients, but I appreciate the fact that I do not have to use Fastmail&rsquo;s email clients and use my client of choice. Fastmail is ok with it as they get my money anyway, and I like this model. What would you rather Reddit (and other similar services) do?

smoldesu · Accepted Answer

> What would you rather Reddit (and other similar services) do?Acknowledge the value that these users provide? The quality of content on Reddit is entirely driven by selfless contribution. If you go out of your way to diminish the experience of power users, you're sabotaging the quality of content on your platform and basically driving it into the ground. I haven't had a Reddit account in years, but the community is right to get mad now. It's time for them to find a new home, clearly Reddit has a conflict of interests internally.

akerl_ · Answer

I haven&rsquo;t seen many folks who are opposed to the API for apps being a paid service. Even the Apollo dev said they&rsquo;re fine with paying. The problem is that Reddit&rsquo;s pricing seems to be basically set high enough to effectively make developing third party apps impossible, and then their communication about the change has been dishonest.The pricing makes it seem like Reddit wants to ban 3rd party clients without doing so outright.