Yep, I was just pointing out that the person I replied to was wrong.

Sync for Reddit wasn’t just created yesterday. There comes a point where almost all software is stable and will run be fine without updates indefinitely. Established Reddit clients were at that point years ago.

Again though - some money > no money. By literally shutting the app down it makes no money.

Ongoing development of sync is only a full time job because it paid so well with zero costs since Reddit handed the content and api to the dev for free. It’s definitely not an actual full time jobs worth of work.

Unless the person you replied to is almost 70 years old, Eisenhower wasn’t president during their lifetime. They’d have to be over 50 for Nixon to have been, 60 for kennedy, 45 for Ford, 42 for Carter.

Reagan, Clinton, and Obama are probably the only ones applicable from your list, and “starting new wars” can be applied to a few of them in terms of the USA becoming infolved, as others have mentioned.

There’s money left to give to israel after it’s all been given to Ukraine?

Community backlash? Not sure you’ve been paying attention lol. Also Boost/Sync/etc aren’t a “platform”, they’re an app to access a platform.

There aren’t necessarily ongoing maintenance costs.

Do you have any idea how expensive a developer’s time is?

I do, I am one. A change to go subscription only in an app that already has subscriptions is a one line code change essentially. Changing the price of subscriptions isn’t even than, it’s a config or db change.

The Boost guy made literal millions from reddit. The sync guy is probably the same based on how many people shill it.

Sure, but again - removing the app takes away 100% of the revenue. Keeping it as subscription only gets you some revenue. Some > none.

Apart from the ones that pay. You only need to look at any of the sync posts on here to see there are many, many of them.

You’re overlooking the fact that these apps don’t cost these people more than their time to maintain. They don’t have hosting costs. The costs are literally the devs time, that’s it.

Would they make less money going subscription only? Absolutely. Would they lose money? Absolutely not. Completely removing the app means they make even less money - $0 in fact.

Most of these apps already had subscriptions. It would be a config value or database change to update the price for new subscriptions, and one line of code to only allow users that have a subscription to use the app.

Also if your entire livelihood relies on making your entire business off the back of a free api to someone else’s business, you can’t complain. When this happens. Your business model is bad, and then cutting off your access is a known risk.

Just gotta take his word on that I guess since the app isn’t open source.

Reddit wanted to be paid for their work too btw. Many found that to be unfair.

They could still have ads.

The boost dev in his whinge post about the new costs said that his revenue was in the millions of dollars a year. His costs are……his time. There’s no way the other devs for apps like sync and RiF also didn’t make millions.

Also Reddit the company doesn’t care about third party app devs leeching off their product. They cost them money. They don’t give them anything in return. That’s why they started charging for the api. 30 days is more than enough to simply increase your existing subscription costs and remove free access. I say this as a developer myself. That’s a half a day job at most, including taking a nap.

if you pay for ad removal the tracking stops

Oh cool, so if you pay to remove the ads the developer added in to make you pay, you won’t be tracked. Maybe.

But that price has to be reasonable, and should come with more than 30 days notice.

Should it? Says who? Why?

A $5/month subscription to use the app is more than enough to pay reddit what they want. Remember, many of these app developers have made literally millions of dollars from reddit without giving reddit a cent.

Most of these apps had subscriptions already in place. All they had to do was remove the free access and maybe increase the subscription price a bit to $5/month (I’m not sure what they were charging before).

It’s blowing my mind that people on here are happy to throw $100+ at a mobile app to access a free website that has multiple free and very good apps, especially when the app they’re paying for is inserting ads into the experience to make people pay to remove the ads.

I’m sure they did, but that free ride to the millions of dollars they were pocketing came to and end because they didn’t want to pay. Now they’re here to milk this sites users dry.

Don’t forget that he added ads into the app for a platform that doesn’t have ads and then is selling the option to remove them.