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I like the web app more. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[+] -6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

God forbid you have to pay for stuff.

But reddit asking to be paid for use of their API was the end of the world for these devs lol

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, reddit demanded ludicrously high fees at barely 30 days notice. It gave nobody any time at all to figure out alternative monetization strategies. Many of the third party apps had expressed their willingness to pay, but that was just absurd

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    They also had ads, which they'd no longer gain revenue from. Ads can pull in $3-5 per month per user. That's a massive loss.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    They could still have ads.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not if you remove free access. That's a great way to lose your entire user base.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Ad revenue very often dwarfs the income from subscribing users by a huge margin. Sure, a single user subscribing pays for themselves plus a little extra, but your free users make up 70-80% of your revenue

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    The amount of people that subscribe would likely not pay for the ongoing maintenance costs unless he's willing to work for shit pay. Every hour he puts into maintenance is an hour he didn't put into maintenance the other version that actually pays well enough

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There aren't necessarily ongoing maintenance costs.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No program ever created has never needed any bug fixing or improvement. That's the nature of software engineering.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That must be why Sync has been pretty consistently updated for a decade.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just because it has doesn't mean it needed to be.

    If I earned enough money from a product to be able to only work on it, I'd update it too - but that doesn't mean it needs updates or maintenance.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And that's exactly how businesses become complacent and get overtaken by new players in the market

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