One of the remaining 3rd party Reddit apps (Relay) has begun discussing what it would be charging for subscription fees. Imo, they actually seem somewhat reasonable. The weird thing is that every upvote or downvote is an API call so you can rack up a huge number of API calls from voting.
Also, while the costs might be reasonable now, there’s nothing preventing Reddit from jacking up prices again.
Edit: Also, there wouldn’t be any NSFW content with the app.
That’s fine, just trying to figure out how Relay users are having much lower API calls. I guess people could just be using it less. But, the kind of people to post on the Relay subreddit seem like they’d use Reddit more.
As a long time relay user but not an Apollo user, my impression from reading all the drama of early June was Apollo had a lot more features than I had seen before, and that was what set it apart from other clients. More features means more API calls, generally.
As an example, I had relay poll for PM once an hour, but I remember seeing Apollo was doing it every few minutes or maybe alongside thread views so notifications were more immediate. The user experience would be better but at the expense of far more API hits.
Again, there’s no guarantee that the number of API calls reported by Reddit are even remotely accurate. I’m pretty sure apollo was the only one to release his own API call numbers unless I’m just being a retard and forgetting, so there’s nothing to compare anyone to.
If anything the offical Reddit app makes the most API calls out of any app with as many fucking ads it preloads 24/7.
How are you going to figure out when all you have to go on is speculation? We don’t know how many API calls Relay has in comparison with e.g. Apollo, and even if we did, wouldn’t a better app have more API calls anyway because it’s more fun to use and therefore being used longer and more often? I could make a Reddit app with very low API call numbers because I’d make it so bad that people close it after a minute ;-)