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(Discussion) Would you pay for Reddit Premium IF it allowed you to continue using your favorite app? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Thanks4Nothing@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn't want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.

Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?

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[–] Thanks4Nothing@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But that is exactly the problem with third party apps ..they don't show ads so they make no add revenue on people using apps like Sync and Apollo or RIF.. The official app does. I understand why they are trying to push people to their app, but the route they took was worst case scenario.

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Third party app users generate content that make adds possible. Get out of here with this pitty reddit problems.

[–] arquebus_x@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not a problem with third party apps, that's a problem with Reddit's API that doesn't send ads to third party apps. It's entirely a problem of their own making, which they could have fixed years ago, but chose not to, and are now using as a fallacious excuse to shut off access.

[–] amotoohno@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Uhh … if I were developing a Reddit reader app, and if their API periodically shit ads into my user’s feed, you KNOW that feature #1 in my third-party app would be simply to ignore those blobs of crap.

[–] Rhodin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why didn’t Reddit try to buy out these third party apps, then? They’d have had the superior functionality AND they could have added ads.

[–] SoupOfTheDay@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They did years ago. AlienBlue was the unofficial “official” app. It was the most popular Reddit app on the App Store. Reddit bought it and at first it was fine, but then Reddit decided it didn’t like supporting AB and its official app, so they shut AB down and forced everyone to their official app.