• Whirlybird
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    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.

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      A one line code change but community backlash and basically no new users coming onto the platform is a slow death sentence

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        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.

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          I’ve been paying plenty of attention. If sync had raised priced to keep operating on Reddit, the users who don’t give a shit or know about the API price increase (which is realistically a large number of them) would blame Sync, not Reddit. People are idiots.

          Most would rightfully stop using it, which would cause ad revenue to plummet, and would very likely make ongoing development of it infeasible since its his full-time job to maintain it.

          And whatever. The specific word I used is irrelevant to my point so I don’t see why it’s necessary to be pedantic about it.

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            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.

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              It’s definitely not an actual full time jobs worth of work.

              I’m sure reddit has exactly zero engineers who work exclusively on the app every day. /s

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                From the way people that love Sync etc talk about the official reddit app they likely don’t.