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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
This seems mutually bungled. The Apollo guy is completely whiny, and was happy to piggy back on a bunch of stuff Reddit was providing for free. The fact he admits it could have been severely optimized vs. other Reddit apps, but didn't consider taking action until the limits were announced kind of proves Reddit's point here.
On the other hand, Reddit did this in a very rushed, heavy handed and poorly communicated manner, then doubled down on the stupidity when people unsurprisingly lashed out.
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I don't really see the Apollo dev as all that whiny. He's just calling them out on their BS.
First they tell him in January that there will be no changes to the API in 2023. Then it's, ok we're going to make changes and start charging, but it will be "based in reality". To finally, a ridiculous pricing structure with almost no time to prep for that was only meant to push out 3rd party apps.