Man, that entire interview with The Verge was infuriating to read. I ended up deleting all of my comments/submissions from my almost 16 year old account right after reading it. Saying he wouldn’t work with Apollo or RIF because they already “threw in towel”, just reeks of insincerity. I mean, they both wanted to work with reddit but were basically shut out completely.
He keeps saying they knew about the changes for a while, but in reality the prices weren’t released until a couple of weeks ago and it was less than 6 months ago (January) that they were told there were no major changes coming to the API in the medium to long term… like years. Then the changes, without mention of price, were announced April 18th and it wasn’t until the end of May when the pricing was official. Plus, they changed how they calculated API limits. Before, it was Client ID + User ID, so each user of a 3rd party app had a limit and now it is just Client ID, so of course any app that has a significant amount of users is going to go over that limit instantly.
Everything, every step of the way has been so disingenuous and rushed.
Reddit talks about their new Developer Platform, but as of last week at least it was invite only and developers that inquired about it got no response. They talk about mod tools in the works to replace what 3rd party apps did, but none of it is released. Just so unnecessarily rushed when it would have been much better to get your dev platform and mod tools at least somewhat open and have like a 3 month grace period after announcing the prices so devs could have a chance to make changes to their apps. Spez just comes out of this looking so out of touch with the community. What a shame.
I went with Dewalt when their 20v tools came out, so i stuck with them. It’s nice to be able to use the same batteries for all my tools. Kind of want to switch to Milwaukee though, they seem to perform a little better, but I don’t use them enough to justify changing at this point.