[VERGE] One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it

I hope it doesn't work out, to be honest. It's just rewarding Reddit by proxy.

And paying users of the app still wont see NSFW content, and will still get advertised to (if not via literal ads, but via marketing and promoted posts and what not).

Just move to another platform.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The costs of a subscription will go up based on a user’s daily average number of API calls, essentially meaning that the more things a person does in the app, the more they might have to pay.

Here is the full list, from developer DBrady’s post, which appears to include Google’s take of the subscription and Relay’s expected revenues:

In the newest release of Relay, DBrady says they also added the ability for users to see their average daily API calls.

The plan is for a subscription to roll out in two or three weeks from the time of their post and they expect to charge a monthly cost of $3 or $4.

“This won’t cover the cost of ‘super users’ who use the app all day, but, on average, it should allow me to pay the Reddit API bill,” the developer said.

Many subreddits and users protested against the switch to the paid API in-party because of its effect on the third-party app ecosystem.

I'm a bot and I'm open source!

45% of the users only make 45 calls a day? I'd exceed that before heading to bed late at night.

Hope it doesn't work.

Relay was my favorite reddit app, I was hoping he would bring his app to Lemmy.

Regardless of my negative feelings towards reddit, I hope this works out for him.

A couple of months ago I would have taken that.